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By Zahid Hussain, Christopher Thomas
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conducted in defiance of world
leaders who had begged Paki¬
stan not to respond to similar
tests in India earlier this
month — and brought imme¬
diate reprisals in the form of
economic sanctions that could
devastate a country already on
the verge of bankruptcy.

President Clinton had tele*
phoned the Pakistani Prime
Minister. Nawaz Sharif,
hours before the explosions —
his fifth cal I this month —and
spent 25 minutes imploring
him not to go ahead with the
tit-for-tat tests. But he was
rebuffed by Mr Sharif, who
said that his country had no
choice after the international
community's “failure" to pun¬
ish India for its tests.

Mr Clinton immediately an¬
nounced wide-ranging eco¬
nomic sanctions on Pakistan,
whose actions he deplored. “I
cannot believe we are about to

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OBITUARIES...27

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CHESS & BRIDGE.... 48
COURT & SOCIAL.... 26
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EDUCATION..47

Blair and PoWs
to have talks

Tony Blair is to hold talks
with former Japanese PoWs
to smooth the dispute that has
dogged the visit to Britain of
Emperor Akihita The Emper-
or and the Empress yesterday
visited Kew Gardens, lunched
at No 10 and gave a banquet
at the V&A_Page II

AA may reform

The Automobile Association
is t o con sider reform of its
constitution in response to
protests from members who
accused its executive of behav¬
ing like a. “self-perpetuating
oligarchy”.._Page 29

start the 21st century by hav¬
ing the Indian subcontinent
repeat the worst mistakes of
the 20th.- he said. “By failing
to exercise restraint and re¬
sponding to the Indian tests.
Pakistan lost a truly priceless
opportunity to improve its
political standing in the eyes of
the world.”

Mr Clinton and President
Yeltsin later agreed to work
together to try to prevent a
nuclear arms race in South
Asia. They regarded the
nuclear competition between
India as “a serious threat noi
only to regional security but to
the non-proliferation regime
and world stability".

India, delighted that it no
longer stands alone in facing
world condemnation for car¬
rying out nuclear tests, said
that it had been vindicated by
Pakistan's action.

Mr Sharif, defiant in the
face of sanctions that are likely
to hit his country much harder
than its neighbour, main¬
tained that the increasing
nuclear threat from India had
left it no option but to respond
in kind. ‘Today we have
settled the score by detonating
five nuclear devices of our
own.” he said in a nationwide

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television address. “We paid
them back."

Pakistan was prepared to
make any sacrifice m defend
its sovereignty and national
security. “We are ready to face
economic sanctions, but we
will not surrender our nat¬
ional interests. I’m not a
leader of a coward nation."

Mr Sharif, a multimillion¬
aire businessman, said that
everybody would have to
make sacrifices: “I give you
this assurance: if the nation
will take only one meal a day.
then my children will take
only one meal a day."

Mr Sharif’s Government

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rouble out of crisis

had been under strong public
pressure to conduct the tests,
with a recent opinion poll
showing that 90 per cent of
Pakistanis favoured an imme¬
diate response to the Indian
explosions. Yesterday crowds
celebrated with gunfire, while
Muslim hardliners cheered
the advent of the first “Islamic
nuclear bomb".

But very few Pakistanis are
aware of the price the nation
will have to pay. and Mr
Sharif’s promises of personal
sacrifice showed that he was
worried about the political
fallout of further economic
hardship once the jubilation

about the tests subsides. And
while he insisted that Pakistan
could not compromise “in the
face of aggression”, he said
that he was ready to discuss
with Indian leaders all out¬
standing issues, inchiding a
non-aggression pad.

In India, too, fear of an arms
race is rapidly overtaking the
earlier euphoria over its dem¬
onstration of nuclear power
and there was pandemonium
among opposition MPs when
the Pakistani tests were an¬
nounced in Parliament.

Pakistani officials have not
disclosed anything about the
kind of devices that were

tested, and one said: “The only
thing we can say is that they
were not inferior to that tested
in India.” A middle-range
Gauri missile with a range of
more than 900 miles was
successfully flight-tested last
month and yesterday Pakistan
declared that it was already
being capped with nuclear
warheads "with a view to give
a befitting reply to any misad¬
venture by the enemy”.

On Wednesday, security
was stepped up at nuclear
sites and the Indian High
Commissioner in Islamabad
was summoned to the Foreign
Ministry a: lam yesterday to

receive a warning that Paki¬
stan would retalite with mas¬
sive force if it were attacked.
The ministry said that it had
intelligence reports that India
intended to launch strikes on
the nuclear sites at dawn.
India said that it was an
absurd accusation.

Mr Clinton made his final
telephone call to Mr Sharif
after satellite spy pictures
showed concrete being poured
down an underground shaft
suggesing that an explosive
device was being sealed.

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Leading article, page 25

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separate

services

By Daniel McGrory

THE two families of Diana,
Princess of Wales, have derid¬
ed to commemorate the first
anniversary of her death by
holding separate memorial
services in private at Balmoral
and her family’s ancestral
home at Ahhorp.

The Royal Family took the
derision to remain out of the
public eye after asking her
sons. Prince William and
Prince Harry, how they want¬
ed to mark the anniversary.
They and Prince Charles will
join the Queen and the Duke
of Edinburgh at a small
prayer service at Craihie
Church where they went just
hours after learning of the
Princess’s death on August 31.

Her brother. Eari Spencer,
her two sisters and their
families wifi at the same time
hold a private service on the
banks of the lake at A1 thorp
where they can look across at
die island where she is buried.

Before the anniversary it is
expected that the two princes
will visit Afihorp to see their
mother's unmarked grave.

In announcing their differ¬
ent plans yesterday both Buck¬
ingham Palace and the
Spencer family emphasised
that there was no rift between
them as to how to mark the
anniversary. However. Earl
Spencer was not invited to join
his nephews at the Balmoral
service and was taken by
suprise at the Palace’s derision
yesterday to reveal its plans.

Tony and Cherie Blair, who
will be staying with the Queen
at Balmoral that weekend, will
join the Royal Family at the
church.

A Palace spokesman said:
“The Royal Family and the
Spencers have been in touch
and each wishes to mark the
anniversary privately and in

Continued on page 2, col 6

By Robin Lodge. Moscow

PRESIDENT YELTSIN won
his government some vital
breathing space yesterday, in¬
sisting that Russia would wea¬
ther its latest economic crisis
and reiterating that there was
no question of devaluing the
beleaguered rouble.

Mr Yeltsin found a suitable
scapegoat for the crisis and
publicly dismissed the top
official of the last state-owned
oil company, Rosneft, follow¬
ing the failure of a share
auction last week — not a
single bidder came forward
for the 75 per cent stake of
Rosneft, valued at $2.1 billion
(£1.3 biliionj. Yuri Bespalov,
chief executive of Rosneft, was
the man selected to take the
blame.

Mr Yeltsin, who met his top
government economists yes¬
terday. was dismissive about
fears that the rouble would
collapse. He said: “The Cen¬
tral Bank and Finance Minis¬
try have sufficient reserves to

control the situation.” There
was no question, he said, of
devaluation, echoing the
words of Sergei Kiriyenko. his
Prime Minister, the previous
day. The President pledged to
take action against tax evad¬
ers. saying that he would issue
a decree to allow the seizure of
defaulters’ property and
assets.

The failure of the govern¬
ment to collect tax revenues
has left a gaping deficit in the
Russian budget and caused
widespread alarm among in¬
vestors. In the short term. Mr
Yeltsin’s words, coupled with
the tripling of interest rates to
150 per cent on Wednesday,
appeared to have had their
desired effect. The rouble
strengthened while Russian
stocks made up most of
Wednesday's losses.

Tax purge, page 19
Leading article, page 25
Waiting for IMF. page 29

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Planet found in
deepest space

Astronomers have taken the
first picture of a planet out¬
side our own solar system.
The image was hailed as one
of the most exriting taken by
the Hubble Space Telescope.

The planet, two or three
times the size of Jupiter, is
ploughing a lonely furrow
through space 450 light years
away. It is in the constellation
of Taurus and was apparently
expelled by the binary stars
around which it once
orbited___Page 5

Stop harrowing aid
appeals, says Short

By Jill Sherman, chief political correspondent

CLARE SHORT yesterday
gave a warning of compassion
fatigue and urged internation¬
al aid groups to end “unbear¬
able” humanitarian appeals
which made people “flinch
and turn away".

Speaking at a London con¬
ference the International Dev¬
elopment Secretary called on
aid agencies to use positive
advertising to attract funds for
longer-term development.

But Peter Walker, director
of disaster for the Internation¬
al Federation of Red Cross and
Red Crescent Societies, hit
back with a robust defence of
humanitarian aid work.

“It is a little bit like blaming
999 crews because we have a
lot of road accidents," he said
and described Ms Short's
speech as “good analysis,
wrong conclusion".

Alberto Navarro, the direc¬
tor of the European Commun¬
ity Humanitarian Office, said
that humanitarians were not

responsible for conflicts. Dev¬
elopment and humanitarian-
ism were two sides of the same
coin.

Ms Short was &nbroiled in
controversy last August when
she infuriated the people of
Montserrat by suggesting that
their demands for aid after a
volcano eruption were unrea¬
sonable. “They will be de¬
manding golden elephants
next." she said at the time.

Yesterday she told the Dis¬
patches from Disaster Zones
conference that the crisis in
Sudan where 350,000 people
were starving would spark a
huge humanitarian appeal.
But the civil war had been
caused by domestic political
failures, not an “act of God”.

She said that there had been
an increase in humanitarian
aid and a reduction in dev¬
elopment aid. “If it is ail
humanitarian we are just
going round in an endless
cycle."

Male chimps work while females watch TV

By Shirley English

FEMALE chimpanzees are
more liable to become tele¬
vision addicts than their,
mates. Confronted with the
small screen, males mil con¬
tinue to search for food or
wander around while the
females are only too anxious
to settle down and gawp.

In a two-month study at
Edinburgh Zoo a group of 12
chimps were shown one of six
15-minute videos every day at
the same time each morning.

Within a week the four

and eagerly settled down. But
the males showed little inter¬
est preferring to wander
round their enclosure or
scratch about the termite
mound.

However, after weeks of
watching the same six videos
even the female teleaddicts in
the group began to get bored.

The videos, compiled from
clips of David Attenborough
documentaries on chimpan¬
zees, covered eating playing,
grooming, aggressive behav¬
iour. and mating.

The juveniles enjoyed the

had seen on the screen. But
the aggressive sequences were
not imitated.

Dr Jim Anderson, the su¬
pervising psychologist, said
that he had no idea why there
was such a marked difference
between the males and fe¬
males, although in the wild
females are more sedentary.

He said: “They would squat
down and relax and stare at
what was going on whereas
the four males and four
juveniles would watch for a
few minutes, then get on with
whatever they were doing.”

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Adams goes

KAHLPROUSE

fundraising

in New York

From Tunku Varadarajan in new york and Martin Fletcher

G ERRY ADAMS held court at
the New York Stock Exchange
yesterday, seeking financial
support to open an office for
Sinn Fein in London.

The visit was a private one.
In New York, where Sinn
Fein raises much of its funds,
its president has been hailed
as a revolutionary-tumed-
statesman. AjM.rt from a few
dissenting voices, notably a
columnist in The New York
Times who scoffed at what she
called “terrorist chic", 'the
press here has been entirely
favourable to Mr Adams.

Last night, he was set to
address a $l,000-a-head sup¬
per organised by the Friends
of Sinn Fem at an upmarket
New York restaurant. Four
hundred supporters were ex¬
pected. On Wednesday night,
Mr Adams presided over an¬

other fundraiser. 400 people
paid $250 each to dine with
him at a stately hotel. As his
audience watched, he plucked
a robber bullet from the breast
pocket of his fashionable suit
and said: "Hiis is why we’ve
got to get the soldiers off the
street." The diners — who

raised over $100,000 for Mr
Adams, with a matching sum
reported to have been secured
from cheques, applauded with
vigour.

Mr Adams meets President
Clinton at the White House
today and his pronounce¬
ments in New York were
designed to send Mr Clinton
some advance messages on
Sinn Fein policy. Mr Clinton
is expected to raise the conten¬
tious issue of LRA disarma¬
ment with Mr Adams.

Mr Adams said in New

Irish at odds over

hurling rulebook

By Audrey Magee. Ireland correspondent

NATIONALISTS in North¬
ern Ireland are fighting to
stop the Gaelic Athletic Asso¬
ciation (GAA) lifting a 110-
year-old sectarian ban on
Ulster’s soldiers and police¬
men’s involvement in Gaelic
football and burling.

Most of Ulster’s 400 GAA
dubs will vote tomorrow
against plans to lift the ban
and end the bigotry within
Gaelic games. The national¬
ists want to keep the RUC and
Army out of their football and
hurling dubs.

Opposition to removal of
the rule banning policemen
and soldiers from the game
has shocked GAA headquar¬
ters in Dublin. Most of the
1.600dubs in the Irish Repub¬
lic will vote in favour of lifting
the rate, but they have been
branded traitors by. members
in the North.

Joe McDonagh. the GAA
president of the all-Ireland
organisation, proposed drop¬
ping the rule last month after

the peace accord was signed
and the British Government
agreed to reform the RUG
But nationalists in Ulster
are furious. John Crossey.
GAA development officer for
Co Antrim, said: "When the
RUC reform and let our kids
go to hurling matches in
peace, we will reform, but not
before then. For years our
people have been beaten and
harassed going to hurling
matches. They bave been
pulled but of cars all their
stuff rifled on the streets just
because they had hurley
sticks."

The rule was introduced In
1887, three years after the
GAA was founded to foster
Irish games suppressed by
colonialism. Hie association,
which rapidly grew into a
. powerful lobby for nationalist
politics, initially banned the
Royal Irish Constabulary but
extended the rule to include
the RUC and British Army in
Ulster.

York that too much attention
was being placed on
decommisioning. and not
enough on "the real issues".
Addressing the Irish-Ameri¬
can Historical Society, he said:
“The most crucial thing is not
some land of ritual of decom¬
missioning but thai the guns
remain silent. The most imme¬
diate task is not to make a big
issue of what some see as an
insurance but to prove to them
that they are not useful. Every¬
one who's sensible wants
demilitarisation and it re¬
mains my commitment But
there’s too much concentra¬
tion on this issue."

David Trimble, the Ulster
Unionist Party leader, spoke
to Mr Clinton on the telephone
at the weekend and. he said,
drew the issue of IRA disar¬
mament to his attention “by
saying the time has come for
Mr Adams to deliver. I specifi¬
cally asked the president to
raise this issue with Mr Ad¬
ams and he has undertaken to
do so." Mr Trimble indicated
that he was encouraged by the
private conversation.

Sinn Fein has meanwhile
selected Gerry Kelly, a con¬
victed IRA bomber, as one of
its first candidates in the June
25 elections to Northern Ire¬
land's new assembly. Mr Kel¬
ly was jailed for life in 1973 for
bomb attacks on the Old
Bailey and Scotland Yard that
left dozens of people injured.
Ten years Later he led a mass
escape from the Maze prison.
He was recaptured, released
three years ago and became a
senior member of Sinn Fein’s
negotiating team at Stormont.
□ Paramilitary groups which
have called a ceasefire in
Northern Ireland still pose a
threat to peace, Ronnie Flana¬
gan, the Chief Constable of the
Royal Ulster Constabulary
said yesterday. In a lecture to
the Royal United Services
Institute in . London._he said
that the main terrorist threat
came from splinter groups
opposed to the jjeace agree¬
ment, but that the mainstream
paramilitaries continued to
train and had access to "signif¬
icant amounts" of explosives
and firearms.

The television presenter Ulrika Jons son arrives at 11 Downing Street yesterday to
interview Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, about the single European currency

‘McMandelson’ quits job
as Scottish spin doctor

By Shirley English

THE man appointed as
Labour’s senior spin-doctor in
Scotland to spearhead the
fightback against the Scottish
Nationalists has unexpededly
resigned.foom his.post after
two months in the job. -
Paul McKinney, a former
aide to Gordon Brown, the
Chancellor, took up the post of
Communications Director for
Scottish Labour in April after
leaving Scottish Television.
But last night it was an¬

nounced that he had derided
to leave “for personal
reasons;" ■

A brief statement from the
parry headquarters in Glas¬
gow. said: “While Mr McKin¬
ney said he felt disappointed
that he could notjtontinue. he
frit it was important to .leave
before next years Scottish
general election."

He was drafted in , as
Labour's media anchor man,
dubbed McMandelson. - fol¬
lowing a series of public
relations disasters in Scotland,

including the knighthood
snub for Sean Connery.

Mr McKinney’s departure
was seized on by nationalists
as evidence of “London con¬
trol" which had backfired.
Mike Russell, SNP chief exec¬
utive, said: "The wheels are co¬
ming off New Labour in Scot¬
land. The new raft of spin doc¬
tors to- be led by Paul Mc¬
Kinney was imposed on Lab¬
our by London and financed
by London money, but it has
run into insurmountable
problems."

Anti-fraud
specialist
to clean

news in brief

Three child
murder

up NHS charges

By Ian Murray

MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT

AN ANTI-FRAUD specialist
has been appointed for the
National Health Service with
orders to eliminate corruption
among the million-strong
staff, and waste in its £44 bil¬
lion annual budget

The job has gone to Jim Gee,
40. who has made a career out
of tackling fraud in public
service. For the past two years
he has spearheaded a cam¬
paign for Lambeth Council in
South London, where an inde¬
pendent inquiry concluded
that £60 million of the bor¬
ough's E600 million budget
was being lost to fraud and
incompetence.

Mr Gee sacked more than
120 of the staff there and set up
a corporate anti-fraud team,
providing a completely new
model for tackling the prob¬
lem. This included building a
culture of confidence in the
management to take a profes¬
sional approach in dealing
with fraudsters.

In two years he has halved
the level of fraud at Lambeth
and still found time to act as
special adviser cm the subject
to Frank Field, the Minsber
for Welfare Reform.

Before moving to Lambeth,
Mr Gee was fraud investiga¬
tion manager at Islington
Council, North London, from
1990 to 1994. mooting to the
same job at neighbouring
Haringey Council from then
until 1996. In 1995 he was
appointed special adviser on
fraud to the House of Com¬
mons Soria! Security Select
Commitee.

Mr Gee said last night “I
look forward to heading up
the fight against fraud in the
NHS. 1 shrill adopt a compre¬
hensive. independent and pro¬
fessional approach to reduce
fraud to an absolute minimum
level and in doing so, help to
free up resources to put to¬
wards health care for patients.
It will no doubt be a challeng¬
ing job. but (look forward to
applying my experience."

Total losses from fraud in
the Family Health Services
alone are estimated to be in
the region of £85 million to
El 15 million a year from pre¬
scription forms and patient
charge evasion. There are
additional losses from fraud
committed by GPs, dentists,
opticians and pharamcists.

A couple accused of murder¬
ing two baby boys and a
toddler were remanded in
custody by Brighton magis¬
trates’ court yesterday. The.
man aged 35 and the woman
aged 24 are both from the
Brighton area.

They are each accused of
murdering baby boys aged
five weeks and six weeks and,
the murder of a boy toddler,
aged 18-months.They are also.
each accused of the wilful
neglect of the three children
and the wilful neglect of
another four children. They
were remanded until June 4.

The deaths were at first
regarded as from natural
causes and the children were -
buried. The police then began
investigations and the couple
were first arrested last May..

Panorama film

can be screened

Tbe General Medical Council
has lost its fight to ban die
BBC from showing a docu¬
mentary about three doctors
at the ce n tre of the biggest
rer medical disaplinaiy in¬
quiry into child deaths. Three
Appeal Court judges said foe
Panorama programme could -
go ahead on Monday, even
though the inquiry may not
have reached a verdict on
allegations of serious profes¬
sional misconduct

Teenager dies,
twin injured

A teenager was killed and his - -
twin brother seriously hurt I..
when a wheel came off a.’/
tanker and hit their van’s -
windscreen. Andrew Knell. -
19, of Snodland. Kent was.,
killed near the QE2 Bridge in
Kent The van’s driver; was :
slightly' injured and Mr 7
Knell’s brother. Christbphez; \
of East Mailing, more-seri;
ousiy hurt The lony 'driver
was arrested and released an
police baft. .

Railway workers;
vote to strike

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minimum wage plan

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By Jill Sherman, chief political correspondent

jailed for repeat o

UNION leaders yesterday at¬
tacked plans to pay younger
workers a lower minimum
wage, claiming it would turn
the under-2ls into second-class
citizens.

Trade unionists pledged to
fight for a minimum wage of
at least £4 an hour for all
workers regardless of age,
while employers warned that
it could result in widespread
job losses.

The Low Pay Commission,
whose 400-page report was
delivered to the Prime Minis¬
ter on Wednesday, calls for a
minimum wage of £3.60 an
hour which would affect more
than 1.5 million people.

But it suggests that young
workers aged between 16 and
18 would be exempt from the
wage, and those aged 18 to 21
would be paid a lower rate of
£3.20. The Government re¬
fused to be drawn on its
response to the report, but it is
likely that it will accept the
bulk of its recommendations.

Margaret Beckett, President
of the Board ofTrade. said the

recommendation for a lower
rate for young people would
be studiai carefully, but she
denied that the Government
had demanded it.

Yesterday John Edmonds,
genera] secretary of the GMB
general workers union, said
ministers ran the risk of
creating social alienation if
they brought in a “two-tier"
wage.

Mr Edmonds said he was
disappointed that the report
was suggesting that over a
million young people should
be excluded from the mini¬
mum wage. “The Government
will be making a very large
political mistake indeed if it
accepts that recommenda¬
tion, " he said.

Bill Morris, general secre¬
tary of the TGWU said the
report was a “missed opportu¬
nity" but he hinted that unions
would try to use their new
negotiating rights to lift the
rate above the £3.60 level. "We
will take our campaign to the
bargaining table."

Rodney Bickerstaffe. gener¬

al secretary of Unison, said he
would continue to campaign
for £4.61 an hour, half the
male median earnings.

A minimum wage of E3.60
figure would mean about £136
a week, or just over £7,000 a
year. “Surely at the end of the
20th century to sweat someone
in a rich nation like ours for as
little as £3.6(>an-hoiir does not
do credit to a people commit¬
ted to fairness and sodal
justice," said Mr Bickerstaffe.

John Monks TUC general
secretary who helped to bro¬
ker a compromise with the
CBI an union rights, said the
figure was a “reasonable step
in the right direction". It was
lower than he would have
liked but getting a minimum
wage was the first step to
eliminating poverty pay.

Employers gave the pack¬
age a mixed reception. Sir
Colin Marshall, president of
the Confederation of British
Industry said that £3.60 an
hour would be acceptable. But
small businesses warned that
jobs could be lost.

A convicted sex offender.was.
jailed for six years by York -
Crown Court yestenwy . for
molesting a schoolgirl within
three months of his release on : :
parole after another indecent
attack. Steven Black, 29,origi: - ,
nally from Durham, ijad beot:
sent to a bail hostel in ;
Cleakheaten, West Yorkshire.
The subsequent attack ona 13-
year-old girl from the town . .
provoked outrage
local people.

Union bans art

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ish holiday on union rands;

were ordered to make a {while
apology and banned from the
union building. Leeds Univ¬
ersity Students' Union has
also decided to prevent the 13
fine art students from taking
out life membership and
standing for committee posfr
ions. One of the group. Mat*
thew Dunning, said they
would not make an apology
in the college newspaper..

Tests on speed
of death car

Diana death anniversary

Two questioned
aboutbody

From Ben Macintyre

IN PARIS

THE French judge investigat¬
ing the death of Diana, Prin¬
cess of Wales, has staged a
partial reconstruction of the
accident to assess the speeds
of ihe vehicles involved.

At Montlhery motor racing
course outside Paris. Herat
Stephan witnessed speed tests
on a Mercedes of the same
make as the one in which the
Princess was killed. Some ten
motorcycles similar to those
ridden by the photographers
pursuing her car were also
tested. The reconstruction was
earned out by the Paris
Criminal Brigade and police
specialists in stria secrecy on
Wednesday night. It aimed to
iron out contradictions be-
tween witnesses.

Nine photographers and a
motorcycle driver remain
under formal legal investiga¬
tion facing possible man¬
slaughter charges.

Continued from page I
their own way wherever they
may be on that day. The Royal
Family recognises that people
may want to remember the
Princess in any number of
different ways but they want
to remember Diana privately
with Princes William and
Harry."

No member of the Royal
Family will take part in any
public commemoration ser¬
vice and government minis¬
ters said last night that there
are no plans to stage any
national evenL.

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thousands of people will gath¬
er at Kensington Palace, her
former home, to leave flowers
as they did in the weeks after
her death.

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said last night that they would
not stop people leaving
tributes or paying their re-.
speets. A spokesman said:
“Every day people stjJI leave
tributes and there will obvi¬
ously be many who want to do
so on that day. We will review

safety arrangments for polic¬
ing nearer the date."

No details have yet been
agreed for the form of the
service at Balmoral but no
members of the public nor
cameras will be allowed into
Crathie Church.

Earl Spencer said that Al-
ihorp will be closed on the an¬
niversary so that he and his
family can grieve in private.
His sisrers. Lady Jane
Feliowes, Lady Sarah McCor-
quodale and their families will
be there, but their mother,
Mrs Frances Shand Kydd. has
yet lo deride if she will join
them. Lord Spencer's children
will stay in South Africa as it is
during their school term.

A spokeswoman for the
Diana, Princess of Wales Me¬
morial Fund said that no
plans for events on August 31
had been put forward for its
approval. A fundraising “pil¬
grimage walk" through
London, partly along the route
of the Princess's funeral, was
planned for the week before
ihe anniversary.

Detectives continued to ques¬
tion two students yesterday ;
after the decomposed remains
of a body, believed to be thal -
of missing student Russell'
Crookes, 17. were discovered-
in a field near Hadlow. Kent.

He vanished on May 14 after •
a disco at HadJowAgricoinfre
College. Parts of the' body • '
were found on Tuesday by a _
man walking his dog. Officer
are reported to hive Sled
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Lover jailed for ‘dumping’ girlfriend

Damian Whitworth reports on how jealousy pushed one man — or rather, his beloved — over the edge

WHEN Liam Devine's romantic
date was constantly interrupted by
his girlfriend taking mobile phone
calls from a suspected old flame, he
flew into a jealous rage and decided
to chuck her. But he did so in
spectacularly literal fashion —
dumping her over a wall into the
Thames.

Fortunately, the tide was out and
she alighted on the muddy river
bed. He landed in jail for 16 weeks.

Devine, 24, a BT information
technology expert, apparently tried
to jump in after her to pull her out.
Bow Street magistrates were told.
He wept in the dock yesterday after

admitting causing actual bodily
harm to Siobhan Kilmurray. Miss
Kilmurray escaped with minor cuts
and bruises after plunging 30ft and
sticking fast. waisT-deep and face¬
down. in the sludge.

Kimberley Aiken, for the de¬
fence. told the Central London
court: “It was a bizarre act which
ended their date in such a spectacu¬
lar fashion after an atmosphere of
soft lights and romantic setting on
a river boat."

Jack Renwick. for the prosecu¬

tion. said the couple had been to a
West End show then for a meal,
during which they drank wine and
Irish coffees before going on to the
Queen Mary floating boat bar and
restaurant on the Embankment,
where they continued drinking.

They started rowing over a string
of calls that Miss Kilmurray re¬
ceived during the evening, which
Devine believed were from an old
boyfriend. Miss Kilmurray
stormed off the boat but was
followed along the Embankment

by Devine. Mr Renwick said.
“Suddenly he took hold of her. bent
her over the Embankment wall and
pinned her against it. She began
screaming and he picked her up by
the legs and threw her over the
wall."

River police were initially unable
to pull Miss Kilmurray out of the
mud because she was stuck so
deep, and had to resort to tying a
rope around her and attaching it to
a power-boat to pull her free. "She
was somewhat hysterical and was

taken to St Thomas' Hospital," said
Mr Renwick. "Her injuries were
not serious, but clearly die
suffered severe shock."

The court was cold that Miss
Kilmurray, who is in her early
twenties and is a personnel officer
with the Bank of Switzerland, had
forgiven Devine and their relation¬
ship was still “on-going". However,
they had not actually seen each
other since the modem in January.

Miss Aiken said that Devine had
not tried to make any excuses, and

still could not come up with any
reasons to justify his actions. She
said that Devine, of Upper Nor¬
wood. southeast London, had been
angered by die phone calls, “ft was
the straw that broke the camel’s
bade and sparked the fuse. It is
right to say that she is a very
attractive young lady and Mr
Devine isn’t the only gentleman
that seeks her affection."

Devine immediately regretted
what he had done and had to be
stopped from jumping into die

river himsdf to try to rescue his
girlfriend. "Clearly, if he had
managed to get over the wall, he
would have been in grave danger
himself. When die police arrived,
he immediately said, ‘It's all my
fault, it’s all my fault.’"

The magistrate, Nicholas Evans,
told Devine: “I am completely
satisfied that this was quite out of
character and that you were genu¬
inely remorseful immediately, co¬
operated with the police ana did
everything you could to pui matters
right. But the offence is so serious
that only a custodial sentence can
be justified."

Hospital hired
girl, 15, to work
heart monitors

By Gillian Harris, Scotland correspondent

A SCHOOLGIRL who has been
earning pocket money by operat¬
ing heart monitoring machines
attached to critically iU patients
was dismissed yesterday.

The lSyear-old, the daughter of
a consultant's secretary, had been
working three-hour shifts ar week¬
ends in the cardiology department
at Perth Royal Infirmary where
her duties included attaching elec¬
tronic terminals to patients’ chests
and taking the readings to doctors.
She was dismissed by Perth and
Kinross NHS Trust after the
health union Unison expressed
alarm and called on the Scottish
Office for an investigation.

William Gray, director of Perth
and Kinross NHS trust, initially
defended the hospital's decision to
employ the girL “The duties in¬
volved would be an inappropriate
use of skilled nursing or medical
staff, and the employment of
someone else to do this work
means that doctors and nurses are
freed to undertake more appropri¬
ate clinical duties." he said.

"The individual concerned has
yeceived full training to carry out
' the job. which can be learnt in a
few hours." But shortly afterwards
the girl was dismissed by the direc¬
tor of personnel. Bob Ironside.

Yesterday Dick MatchetL re¬
gional officer of Unison, said: “ Peo¬
ple engaged in that sort of work
usually require two or three years’
training. It is alarming that this
girl appears to have been treating
patients with a heart condition."

In a statement, a spokeswoman
for the trust said: “The duties un¬

dertaken did not involve any inter¬
pretation of the data nor did it have
any involvement with confidential
patient records. The individual
had received full training to cany
out the job which can be learnt in a
few hours and worked in a
supervised environment

“While the trust would reiterate
the confidence expressed by senior
clinical staff in the person who had
undertaken this duty and who was
considered capable of fulfilling the
required tasks, the sensitivities
associated with this practice are
recognised. As such it has been
decided that such duties should no
longer be undertaken by individ¬
uals in this age bracket”

The Scottish Office said the case
did not breach employment re¬
quirements for schoolchildren, but
added: “We cannot condone the in¬
volvement of such a young person
in patient-related duties. We are
glad to see that the trust has
reaffirmed that such duties will not
be undertaken in this way in die
future."

To cany out an ECG. an
operator may have to shave some
hair from the patient’s chest to
obtain a secure attachment for the
electronic terminals. Other than
that all that is required is the
knowledge of how to switch on the
machine and tear off the recording
from it once the reading is fin¬
ished. Although they would face no
physical risk, patients would be
‘likely to be unhappy about being
handled in a rather intimate way
by a very young person without
medical training.

Sir Elton wins
double honour
for Diana song

By Carol Midgley, media correspondent

SIR Elton John was honoured by
die music industry yesterday for
his tribute to Diana. Princess of
Wales. He received two trophies at
the Ivor Novetto Awards for
Candle In The Wind 1997. the
biggest-selling single of all time.

Sir Elton told guests at the
ceremony in London: “This; of
course, is a bittersweet award to
get I wish the record never bad to
be made." Referring to the attack
fay the Oasis star Nod Gallagher
on the record, he added: "And I'm
sure Oasis feel like that too."

Sir Elton, who recently split
with his manager. John Reid,
said: "If someone had said to me
at this time last year that Gianni
(Versace) would be dead. Princess
D iana would be dead, Linda
McCartney, Tammy Wynette and
Jeff Buckley, and I wouldn't have
a manager. I’d say you're mad."

The Silver Ivor was presented
for sales of die single and a special
Silver Novella, the first ever
awarded, was presented for the
powerful message of the song.
Paul Burrell, the Princess's butler,
made the presentation.

Sir Elton said that he was
grateful to the memorial fund set
up in the Princess's name for
allowing a percentage of the
royalties from Candle In The
Wind, so far amounting to
£83 million, to go to the Elton
John Aids Foundation.

The pop band Radiohead won
the Best Contemporary Song prize
for Karma Police and their hit
single Paranoid Android was
voted the Best Song Musically

and Lyrically. Picture of You, co¬
written for the film Bean by
Boyzone’s Reman Keating, was
awarded Best Original Song for a
Film or Broadcast Best Original
Music for a Broadcast was for
TVs Rebecca.

Other winners included the film
Romeo and Juliet, for the Best
Original Film Score. Olive's
You're Not Alone was voted Best
Dance Music. Sharieen Spiteri
and John McElhone of Scottish
band Texas were commended for
the Best Song Collection.

Morrissey, former lead ringer
with The Smiths and now a solo
performer, was presented with the
Outstanding Contribution to Brit¬
ish Music award. The Internation¬
al Achievement award was won
by Enya. Nicky Ryan and Roma
Ryan.

HI Be Missing You (Every
Breath You Take). Pnffdaddy’s
version of The Police’s Every
Breath You Take, won the Most
Performed Work prize.

Richard Ashcroft of Verve was
Songwriter of the Year. He told
the crowd: “Bonkers, bonkers.
When you lose your cat and it
appears on Channel 5 news you
know you're doing something
right or something's going very
wrong at the same time."

He said he had been banned
from music in die third year at
school because be could not play
Chopsticks on the glockenspiel.
“Maybe that says something
about die state of our support for
young people who are interested
in music in this country."

Police officer’s death
halts biggest cycle race

By Joanna Bale

BRITAIN'S biggest cycle race
of the year was halted yester¬
day when a police motorcycle
outrider was killed after a
collision with a car. The West
Mercia officer was flagging
down oncoming traffic on
stage five of the 900-mile
Prut our as the cyclists ap¬
proached Malvern. Worces¬
tershire. at 11.20am.

He was named as PC David
Hopkins. 41. who was married
with a 15-month-old son and
three teenage children from a
previous marriage. The car
was driven by Stephen
POmeroy. 22, of Warndon.
Worcester.

David Wilesmith. an engi¬
neer. was among a dozen
spectators who witnessed the
accident which blocked the
A449 Malvern to Worcester
road near Powick for three
hours. He said: “The motorcy¬
clist was trying to move traffic
to the side so foe bikes would
have a clear passage. The
cyclists were only about two
minutes behind him, a young
man on his own in a blue car
was coming the other way.

“You could see the police¬
man gesturing for the cars to
pull into the near side and the
oriiy thing 1 can think is that
the driver couldn't interpret
the signal. The motorcycle hit
the passenger door and the
officer fell off the bike into the
car. They were so dose, he
couldn't avoid it.

“There were about a dozen
people there watching. You

could see it was bad because
they wouldn't move him off
the road for half an hour. The
cyclists were all stopped before
they reached us and the emer¬
gency services were on the
scene in no time. The young
driver was jus! absolutely
stunned."

The 129-mile stage from
Birmingham to Cardiff was
abandoned, disappointing
hundreds of spectators who
lined the route. A spokesman
for West Mercia police said
escort bikes were fitted with a
sign saying “Stop, cyde race”
and that PC Hopkins had
recently escorted the Princess
Royal cm a private visit to
Shrewsbury.

He added: “We are very

PC Hopkins: qualified
to escort cycle racers

lose a colleague in these cir¬
cumstances. The officer was a
very experienced motor cy¬
clist He was one of only two
West Mercia officers trained
in these techniques used on
the Pro four race.

“Clearly when an accident
such as this happens one
reviews ail the circumstances
to see what lessons can be
drawn. Each route is checked
and officers are briefed at the
beginning of each day.

The car driver suffered
shock and has been assisting
us with our efforts to piece
together the exact sequence of
eventsThe car driver was
not arrested or charged, but
was questioned at Malvern
police station.

Superintendent Mike Mc¬
Cormack, in charge of polic¬
ing the tour, said: “The bikes
were about a mile from the
accident site and travelling at
up to 40mph on a fast stretch
of road.

“When we had a report that
we had a serious accident
ahead of us I immediately
called the race organisers and
told them to stop the race. U
was brought to a hair well out
of site of the accident."

A Prutour spokesman said
the day's prize money would
be donated to PC Hopkins's
family.

The race will resume with a
leg from Bristol to Reading
today.

Riders’ views, page 56

Rugby star
cleared over
brawl in
nightclub

By Simon de Bruxelles

NEIL JENKINS, the Wales
and British Lions rugby
player, was yesterday cleared
of brawling in a nightclub.

The sportsman said after
his acquittal: “The trial has
been a big strain and I want to
get on with my life now. I'm
looking forward to having a
nice game of golf."

A judge directed the jury at
Swansea Crown Court to ac¬
quit Mr Jenkins, 26, after Dale
McIntosh. 28, his Pontypridd
team mate, admitted causing
grievous bodily harm to a
doorman, a charge that he had
previously denied. Patrick
Griffiths, for the prosecution,
said the Crown would not
continue with the case against
Mr Jenkins or McIntosh’s
brother Shane, 29.

He said that prosecution
witnesses had given honest
recollections of the violence at
the Icon nightclub in Swansea
in February last year but that
there were inconsistencies in
their stories.

The judge, Michael Burr,
directed the jury formally to
acquit Mr Jenkins and Shane
McIntosh of violent disorder
and assault on two doormen.

Mr Jenkins, from Ponty¬
pridd, has scored 594 points
for Wales, making him the
fourth highest-scoring inter¬
national in the world

Dale McIntosh, of Ponty¬
pridd was released on uncon¬
ditional bafl to await sentence.

Accused chaplain ‘was very popular’

By Helen Johnstone

AN ARMY chaplain accused of indecent
assault was a “soldier’s soldier" with an
“earthy" sense of humour but was very
popular, a court martial was told yester¬
day. Captain Richard Landall enjoyed
-bawdy jokes with his colleagues, who ^
never took offence, it was said
Captain Joseph Strachan. who served
with Captain Landall 41. in Bosnia, said
he was the most effective military
he had known in 24 years in die Army.

familiar with the troops without bring

too familiar. . , .

Giving evidence for the defence at the
court martial at Aldershot. Captain
Strachan said "I have never met anyone
Crfio cares so much about ordinary
soldiers, who relates to them, coming
from a very similar background."

Captain Strachan said Captain
landall was a direct preacher whose
sermons he remembered two years later.
Describing his earthy sense of humour,
he said the padrf once asked him if he
Haute Dhotosraphs of his wife.

He added that he had never known
anyone who had taken offence at the
chaplain’s sense of humour.

The court martial was also told that die
woman who has accused the padi£ of
indecent assault, and who cannot be
identified for legal reasons, was a noisy
neighbour who hosted parties which had
often ended up in fights.

A neighbour who lived opposite the
woman and her husband in Celle,
Germany, said they were always having
parties which more often than not ended
up in violence. He said he once saw the

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HOME NEWS 5

First sight
of a planet
outside our

solar system

By Nigel Hawkes. science editor

ASTRONOMERS have taken
the first picture of a planet
outside our own solar system.

The image was hailed yes¬
terday as one of the most
exciting taken by the Hubble
Space Telescope in its eight-
year history. No planet save
those in orbit around our awn
Sun has ever been seen before,
though the existence of several
has been inferred from the be¬
haviour of their parent stars.

The new planet is ploughing
a lonely furrow through space
450 light years away, appar¬
ently expelled by the binary
stars around which it once
orbited, it is estimated to be
two to three times the mass of
Jupiter, making it a very large
planet indeed.

Given the name TMR-1C. it
lies within a star-forming re¬
gion in the constellation Tau¬
rus. The attention of Susan
Terebey. an astrononomer at
the Extrasolar Research Cor¬
poration in Pasadena. Califor¬
nia. was drawn to die planet
by a strange filament of tight
leading from it back to what
seems to be its parent stars.

“I said to myself. This is
really weird, what in the world
could h be?*" she said. She
speculated it could be a tunnel
in a dust cloud surrounding
the stars, through which the

runaway object burrowed, it
would have escaped by a vari¬
ation of the “sling-shot'’ man¬
oeuvre used by spacecraft to
pick up speed. The planet
would have eventually esca¬
ped from its stars altogether.
Future observations will now
be made to measure the plan¬
et's speed to sec if it is as
predicted.

Ed Weiler, of the space
agency Nasa, said: These
future observations will be
critical in verifying that this
object is truly a planet and not
a brown dwarf. If the planet
interpretation stands up... it
could turn out to be the most
important discovery by Hub¬
ble in its history."

There are millions of stars
in the sky, many if not most of
which are assumed to have
planets in orbit, just like our
own star, the Sun. But it has
been impossible to see planets
because they are dim and
easily overwhelmed by the
light of their parent stars.

At least eight planets have
been inferred around distant
stars from the “wobble" they
impart to the star's movement
But none has been seen.

Planets form from the disc¬
shaped clouds of gas and dust
left over from star formation.
They then remain in orbit

Hubble’s image of the binary stars, centre, and the extra-solar planet bottom left

around their parent stars. But
when they form around a
double star, life is more hectic.
The system is unstable, and
eventually results in the planet
being booted out
Alan Boss, an astrophysicist
at the Carnegie Institution of
Washington, said: “This is
unbelievably exciting, seeing a

possible extrasolar planet for
the first time. This is a major,
unprecedented observation. It
is as important as the first
indirect detection of an extra-
solar planet was.”

□ A cloud of gas in space
could spell the end of the
world. Gary Zank. of die
University of Delaware, told

the American Geophysical
Union in Boston yesterday.
The cloud would strip away
the protective cocoon sur¬
rounding die solar system.
Then neutral hydrogen from
space would react with die
atmosphere, causing climatic
changes, while deadly cosmic
radiation would increase.

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criticised over
sex bias case

By Richard Ford, home correspondent

SENIOR officers in a police
service ai the centre of a sexual
harassment scandal were
condemned yesterday for fail¬
ures resulting in tittle effective
management of the service
and low morale.

The report criticised North
Yorkshire Police's secrecy,
lack of commitment toward
women employees and bu¬
reaucratic decision-making.

Senior officers and manag¬
ers were accused by staff of
being motivated by self-inter¬
est and of failing to provide the
service with dear strategic
direction, according to the
report by Her Majesty’s In¬
spectorate of Constabulary.

Unprecedented numbers of
officers approached the in¬
spection team to highlight
grievances, particularly those
involving inappropriate or
discriminatory behaviour.

The . inspectorate's report
follows a two-year investiga¬
tion into the way the service
handled sexual harassment
claims that ended with an
estimated E600.000being paid
to Libby Ashurst in an out-of-
court settlement two years
ago. Allegations of routine
sexual harassment and “unac¬
ceptable and intimidatory" be¬
haviour by officers at
Harrogate police station
emerged when the former
detective won her settlement

Yesterday's report says the
force's attitude towards equal
opportunities was "disap¬
pointing” with tittle invest¬
ment or commitment to the
idea. There is a dear and
unequivocal under-represen¬
tation of female officers in
ranks above constable and in
specialist posts,” the report,
by John Stevens, Her Majes¬
ty’s Inspector of Constabulary,
said.

There were only three
women traffic officers — 2.6
per cent of the force’s total —
compared with a national
average of 4.2, and only nine
female CED officers — 8.6 per
cent of the force’s total com¬
pared with a national average
of 15.4 per cent.

It added that there was a
lad: of commitment and sup¬
port for equal opportunities
from chief officers: equal-op¬
portunities training had been
suspended; and the part-time

Lawrence
detective
rules out
conspiracy

By Lin Jenkins

THE detective who led the
Stephen Lawrence murder in¬
quiry denied yesterday that
the alleged existence of a
relationship between the crim¬
inal father of one of the
suspects and a police officer
meant that there was a con¬
spiracy to protect them.

Detective Superintendent
Brian Weeden also denied that
police had foiled to bring a
successful prosecution because
of an underlying current of
racism in the incident room
which meant the case was not
handled with the usual effid-
ency, speed and expertise. Mr
Weeden. now retired, was in
charge of the case for IS months
from three days after the Mack
A-level student was stabbed in
a racist attack in Eltham.
southeast London in 1993.

At the judidal inquiry into
the death. Jeremy Gompertz,
QC. for the Metropolitan
Police Commissioner, asked
Mr Weeden what he thought
of the two suggestions. Mr
Weeden dismissed both sug¬
gestions. “There was no con¬
spiracy at any stage and I
think that the attempts to
portray such a conspiracy are
ludicrous, and when one looks
at the matters that have been
advanced, they will be seen as
very thin, if not transparent

“My officers did everything
they could to see this case
through to a successful conclu¬
sion. They all worked extreme¬
ly hand, and the fact that at the
end of the day there was no
successful prosecution is not a
consequence of lack of com¬
mitment, but a lack of
evidence."

Peter Bradshaw

Peter Bradshaw asks us to
make dear that he was not the
author of a letter (May 26)
carrying his name and ad¬
dress and concerning William
Hague; nor did it reflect his
views.

CORRECTION

Erskine Childers (“A time to
forgive", May 27) was execut¬
ed in 1922 not by the British,
but by the Irish FYee State
authorities.

equal opportunity post had
been scrapped.

Mr Stevens demanded the
appointment of an officer to
monitor equal opportunities
throughout the force and id
establish a “culture of fair
treatment". He demanded ur¬
gent action in promoting the
force's human resource strate¬
gy. but gave warning: “With¬
out significant investment in
the human resource strategy,
it is unclear as to whether the
force could support a mean¬
ingful change to its organ¬
isational culture.”

The report found that a high
proportion of staff were
concerned at poor commun¬
ications. They complained
they had not been consulted or
listened to and that many staff
retied on a “rumour mill" for
information.

Mr Stevens's inspection,
carried out in February short¬
ly after the resignation of
David Burke after eight years
as chief constable, criticises
management under his tenure
in the rop job. Decision-mak¬
ing was cumbersome and
inappropriate and there need¬
ed to be a root and branch
review and audit of the force's
organisational structure
aimed at cutting the sixth
highest management costs in
England and Wales.

David Kenworthy, the new
chief constable, said the re¬
port's findings were similar to
his conclusions after four
months in the job. He said the
management structure was
being overhauled, an equal
opportunities officer had been
recruited and the grievance
procedures revamped.

Stevens: attacked stance.
taken on equality

Video
cameras
have cut
mugging

By Stewart Tendler

DETECTIVES believe the
filming of suspected
muggers on the streets of
London has led to a 6 per
cent foD in street crime.

Scotland Yard disclosed
yesterday that because of
“in-your-face" video tech¬
niques. muggers fear that
if they attack a victim they
could be identified and
arrested.

The camera teams are
linked to 30 police stations
in the capital's worst areas
for mugging. The officers
identity suspects and
known robbers and tie in
wait for them when they
leave home. They film
them so that they have a
record of what they were
wearing and who they
were with. If a mugging
takes place that day the
description can be
matched to the video.

One senior Yard source
said yesterday that after
being filmed, some rob¬
bers had turned round
gone home to change, only
to be filmed again. A
senior detective said: “We
let them know we know
who they are. what they
are wearing and who they
are with. It has been very
successful.”

The use of the cameras
to combat street robberies
is part of a long term
campaign against mug¬
gers codenamed Eagle
Eye. Police have also
started to put up signs at
the scenes of robberies
asking for witnesses. They
believe these have contrib¬
uted to the drop in street
robberies because the rob¬
bers move away to other
areas and local people
become more vigilant

Police recorded 32300
street robberies from the
12 months to March this
year. In the previous 12
months there were 44500
robberies. Statistics due to
be released next week will
show dial crime in
London in the year to
March fell by 5 per cent
The total recorded crime
last year was 778.000 of¬
fences against 816,000 the
previous year.

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Pour on health with the tomato sauce

Nigel Hawkes on the Italian solution to heart disease and cancer

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BRITAIN’S growing appetite
for an "Italian diet" of pizza,
pasta and tomato sauce could
be making us a healthier
nation, together with —
though preferably not on the
same plate — chips generously
doused in ketchup.

Diet surveys show we are
eating 50 per cent more tomat¬
oes than ten years ago, while
blood samples indicate a strik¬
ing increase in the levels of
lycopene, a constituent of tom¬
atoes that some doctors believe
is a lifesaver.

A group of doctors met at
the Royal Society of Medicine
in London yesterday to exam¬
ine evidence suggesting that
lycopene, an antioxidant pig¬
ment that gives tomatoes their
red colour, and which is found
in high levels in processed
products such as tomato pu¬
rge. sauce and ketchup, can
reduce the risk of heart disease
and cancer. The meeting was
organised by the Lycopene
Project, which is funded by
H. J. Heinz.

“It is often supposed that
fresh vegetables are nutrition¬
ally superior to processed." Dr
Nigel Dickie, the project's
director, said. “But for lyco¬
pene. processed products offer

The tomato is a native of
the Andes and was first
farmed by the eaity
civilisations of Mexico.
Europeans were intro¬
duced to it in the 16th
century by the Conquis¬
tadors. It was quickly
adopted in Spain, Italy
and Portugal, but viewed
with suspicion further
north.

In Britain, the tomato
was long believed to be
poisonous because of its
relationship to deadly
nightshade. It did not
become established as a
food until the 19th
century.

The tomato belongs to
a diverse and very large
family, the Sotanaceae,
which includes potatoes,
peppers, aubergines, to¬
bacco, petunias and
nightshades.

Fresh tomatoes produce less benefit than processed

greater benefits than unpro¬
cessed products."

The reason, according to
Professor David Thumham,
of the University of Ulster, is
that in raw tomatoes the
lycopene is trapped in the skin
of the fruit. Processing, which
breaks up the cells, releases it
and makes it much easier for
the body to absorb.

Evidence that lycopene
brings health benefits comes
from two epidemiological
studies. Professor Lenore
Kohlmeier. of the University
of North Carolina, said that
her study, which compared
1.379 men from America and
Europe who had had a heart
attack with a similar number
who had not. showed that
those with high levels of
lycopene appeared to suffer
only half the risk.

A six-year study of 48,000
men working in the medical
profession by Harvard Medi¬
cal School showed that eating
tomato products more than
twice a week, as opposed to
never, reduced the risk of
prostate cancer by up to 34 per
cent

Tomato sauce appeared to
have the greatest benefits,
followed by canned tomatoes
and pizza, with tomato juice
showing little or no benefit
This is consistent with the
observations showing that the
greater the processing, the
more lycopene is absorbed.

It is impossible to be certain

that lycopene is the ingredient
in tomatoes that produces the
benefits, as it is one of many
carotenoids — natural pig¬
ments — found in vegetables.
But Professor George Trus-
oott, of Keele University, told
the meeting that lycopene was
one of the most effective in its
antioxidant action.

Antioxidants protect the
body against damaging oxy¬
gen-containing free radicals
that are blamed for the dam¬
age that leads to heart disease
and cancer. Professor Truscott

said that lycopene quenched
those free radicals and protect¬
ed white blood cells against
damage by the air pollutant
nitrogen dioxide more than
twice as effectively as beta-
carotene. which is found in
carrots and green vegetables.

Lycopene is found in other
foods — watermelon, pink
grapefruit and apricots — but
for most people these do not
form a significant part of their
diet. Tomatoes provide 85 per
cent of the lycopene we eat
Evidence gathered by Pro¬
fessor Thumham suggests
that lycopene levels in the
bloodstream are increasing
rapidly, doubting over the
past ten years, and that chang¬
ing diets and convenience
foods such as tomato-topped
pizzas are responsible.

ft would certainly seem that
Britain is moving towards a
Mediterranean diet, which
features tomato sauces strong¬
ly. Stephen Weare, of the
Nutrition Department at the
Ministry of Agriculture, said
surveys showed that in Italy
and Spain, consumers ate
about twice as much fruit and
vegetables as Britons .

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market for adult snacks has
risen 175 per cent since 1993.

Two out of three snackers
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die television. Gino Zisa, mar¬
ket analyst for Mintel, which
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themselves indulgences as a
reward for generally eating
healthily. But there is no

doubt companies are gearing
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Cup."

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selfpreservation by increas¬
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Number of
trainee GPs
highest
for 6 years

■ Bv'Ian Murray

THE growing number of
women studying medicine has
led to the first rise in the
number of trainee GPs for six
years, according to official
figures released yesterday.

While the overai I number of
family doctors fell by 21 per
cent between 1987 and 1997,
the figures for October last
year show that the number of
women among them grew by
4 per cent. Over half of all GP
trainees are now female.

The influx of women means
that the total number of GP
trainees is 2.9 per cent up on
the previous year and the
number of fully qualified GPs
has risen by 0.9 per cent Wo¬
men now account for 32 per
cent of all family doctors, com¬
pared with 23 per cent in 1987.

But an increase in part-
timers masks a fall in full-time
GPS. according to Simon
Fradd, vice-chairman of the
British Medical Association's
negotiating committee. “In
reality there are between 2J>
per cent and 5 per cent fewer
GPs and they are being asked
to do more and more.”

This badger cub seen under¬
going a brain scan at St
Anthony's Hospital in
Cheam, Surrey, is believed to
be die first animal to have had
an operation to remove fluid
from its brain (Michael
Hornsby writes). A consultant
paediatric neurologist operat¬
ed on the young female,
nicknamed CT after its com¬
puterised tomography scan.
Phillip Cook, the hospital's
marketing manager, said:
“She was the first non-human

Badger has
surgery on
its brain

patient we have ever accepted.
As we had some spare time in
the X-ray room, we offered
our services free of charge, as
did the neurosurgeon." A man
out walking found the badger,
then ten weeks old, asleep in

woods near Dorking, and
took it to WDdlife Aid, an
animal rescue centre at
Leatherhead, where staff no¬
ticed its swollen head. Paula
Chariton, a centre volunteer,
said yesterday: "She would
not have Lasted long. One of
our sponsors suggested a CT
brain scan, and everybody at
St Anthony’s was wonderful.
The nurses were going goo-
goo over her. We hope she
will be fit enough to go back
to the wild by October."

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Keep health
insurance

simple, says
watchdog

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By Marianne Curphey

MEDICAL insurers were giv¬
en a warning yesterday to
simplify their products or face
regulation.

An Office of Pair Trading
report said that policies were
too complicated for most con¬
sumers to understand and
urged the industry to draw up
a code of practice to enable
customers to compare more
easily policies on offer.. At
present the sale of medical
insurance is unregulated.

If insurers fail to respond to
the OFT recommendations by
September 30. the OFT will
call for stronger regulation
and bring health insurance
under the umbrella of the
City's new super-watchdog,
the Financial Services Author¬
ity. This would mean medical
insurance being sold in the
same way as pensions and
investments, where agents
must ensure that information
given is clear and the product
sold is suitable.

The Association of British
Insurers already has a code of
practice but the OFT report,
published yesterday, said this
could be made more stringent
so that customers were clear
which medical conditions
were covered.

Why did the OFT investigate
health insurance?

The OFT was concerned that
the small print in policies was
too complicated and prevented
consumers from comparing
different products. Customers
had also complained that in¬
surance premiums had been
rising well above the rate of
inflation. The OFT was con¬
cerned that neither the prod¬
uct nor the selling of health
insurance, worth £2 billion in
total, was regulated.

What does the OFT want
health insurers to change?

If is concerned about three
areas. First h says consumers
need more information about
the common policy of exclud¬
ing from insurance cover pre¬
existing medical conditions,
which is known is as “morato¬
rium underwriting".

Second, it wants insurers to
develop "benchmarks" that set
out what a standard policy
does and does not cover, so
that people can compare like
with like. For example, many
polities do not cover treatment
at an outpatient centre, and
some will not pay the bills for
alternative treatments such as
osteopathy.

Third, it believes customers
should be given an indication

of how thtir premiums will
increase with age before they
sign up for the policy. Premi¬
ums are low for younger
people but rise steeply at age
65 or if a claim is made.

Will the esdDding of pro
e xistin g medical conditions
be banned In future?

The OFTs first report did call
for a ban on these exclusions.
Now it says they may be
acceptable provided there is
fuller information given to
customers before they buy
about what the policy covers.

How do I avoid a policy with
an exclusion danse?

There are currently two ways
to buy health insurance. Full
underwriting means that you
give details of your medical
history and m^y be given a
medical examination before
you are granted cover. You are
told of any conditions under
which your insurance mil not
pay ouL Individual insurers
decide whether to cover you
for pre-existing conditions but
you are likely to pay a higher
premium for the privilege.

Alternatively, some insurers
do not ask for any medical
information but will not cover
any preexisting medical con¬
ditions you may have had in
the five years before the start
of the policy.

The two biggest insurers '
Bupa and PPP. which together
control 60 per cent of die
market, dislike moratorium
underwriting and have never
offered it on their standard
individual products. The
newer entrants. Prime Health.
Norwich Union and Rpyal &
SunAlliance. offer their cus¬
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sponded to theOFF report?
The Association of British
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that some of the conclusions
appeared at first sight to be
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of view on exclusions but said
it still had reservations, about
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TH£ number of single parents
on Income Support has fallen
below a million for the first
time in five years.

The decrease from 1,022,000
in November 1996 to 982,000
a year later reflects a fall in
unemployment and growth in
jobs available, improved sets
urity in the benefits system
and demographic changes.

Harriet Harman, the Social
Security Secretary, said the
Government’s national child¬
care strategy and its New Deal
for lone parents would provide
farther help to single mothers
who wanted to go back to
work.

“Getting a job means
women and their children are
better off and h means a
falling bill for the taxpayer. It
also means fewer children
being brought up in house¬
holds where no one works.”

The New Deal for lone
parents, piloted in eight areas
from July last year, was ex¬
tended nationally in April.
The programme involves pro¬
viding claimants with a per¬
sonal adviser to help them to
find work and childcare, and
eo work out if they are entitled
to in-work benefits. The Tories
are demanding a review of the
programme after a report that
the pilot projects had helped
only S00 single parents to
come off Income Support.

Public prefers
Labour to the
Tory sceptics

LABOUR’S policy on Europe
has far more public support
than the Tories’ Eurosceptic
stance, according to the latest
MORI poll for The Times.

Labour also commands
much wider public backing
than the Tories on all other
policy issues, apart from de¬
fence. and has soared ahead
on Northern Ireland at the
end of its first year in
Government

The poll, undertaken last
weekend, shows that the pos¬
ition of the two parties on
Europe has changed dramati¬
cally since April 1997. during
the general election campaign.
Then the Tories were regarded
as having the best policy on
Europe by 38 per cent of those
believing the issue important,
with Labour on 19 per cent

But William Hague’s hard¬
er line on the European single
currency and the divisions it
has created does not seem to
have gone down well, while
Tony Blair's decision to back
economic monetary union in
principle has won wide
acceptance.

The poll shows that support
for the Tories' policy on
Europe has dropped to 26 per
cent, while backing for Labour
has jumped to 43 per cent
among those who say their
voting attentions will be influ-

William Hague’s
tougher line on
Europe has not
won support in
the polls, writes
Jill Sherman

enced by it The change is in
line with recent polls suggest¬
ing thar the public is growing
less Eurosceptical.

Europe is still a much more
important issue among Tory
supporters than Labour sup¬
porters. Some 36 per cent of
Tories consider it a key issue,
against 26 per cent for Labour
and also the general public.

The survey also confirms
that Mr Blairs honeymoon
has lasted a lot longer than
John Majors after the 1992
election. In 1993 17 per cent of
the public were satisfied and
76 per cent disatisfied with the
Conservative Government
But now 52 per cent of the
public are satisfied with the
Labour Government against
31 who are dissatisfied.

The most significant rating
is on Northern Ireland. Before

the general election Labour
languished behind with only
22 per cent backing its policy
against 31 per cent supporting
John Major’s line.

But Tony Blair’s role in
• brokering the Good Friday
peace agreement and a Yes
vote in the referendum has
added 57 points to Labour’s
rating on this issue. Some 79
per cent of the public think
Labour now has the best
policy on Inland against 8 per
cent for the Conservatives..

The high figures for Labour
reflect to some extent the bi¬
partisan approach to North¬
ern Ireland. It is difficult for
Opposition parties to shine in
this area and Mr Hague has
not shared the same high
profile as Mr Blair on this
issue.

Labour is also a long way
ahead on the four issues rated
as the most important:
healthcare, education, unem¬
ployment and law and order.
Labour leads 5:1 over the
Tories cm healthcare, 6:1 on
education. 5:1 on unemploy¬
ment and 2:1 on law and order.
On law and order, the Tories
have dropped ten points in the
past year while Labour has
gone up by 11 points.

Labour is also ahead of the
Tories on having the best
policies on taxation and the

THE KEY ISSUES: WHICH PARTY IS BEST?

Conservative □ Labour

SmtocMORI

who think issue
is important)

Health care (66%)

' Education (62%)

Unemployment (50%)

Law &0rter (45%)

Pensions (36%)

Economy (34%)

Taxation (32%)

Europe 126%)

Housing (23%)

Transport (23%)

Environment (22%)

N Ireland (15%)

Defence (12%)

j Animal welfare (12%) pB.

Constitution/
devolution (8%)

Trade Unions (5%)

(% suppon for each party,
among those who think
issue important)

economy, in contrast to before
the general election. Some 36
per cent of the public think
Labour has the best policy on
taxation, compared with 32
per cent for the Tories. On the
economy. 43 per cent think
Labour has better policies
compared with 27 per cent for
the Tories.

Labour's focus on Scottish
and Welsh devolution has also
earned it greater support with
41 per cent backing its policy,
compared with 20 per cent
before the election. However,
devolution still rates low, only
8 per cent, as one of the issues

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that would influence voting
patterns at the next election.

Health has re-emerged as
the most important issue fac¬
ing Britain, according to the
poll. While Europe is ranked
the fourth most important
issue facing Britain today it is
ranked only eighth in the list
of issues that people say affect
their voting intentions.

□ MORI interviewed a repre¬
sentative quota sample of 905
adults aged IS plus at 155
sampling points across Great
Britain. Interviews Here con¬
ducted face to face on May 21-
24.

THE TIMES FRIDAY MAY 29j9 98

Scots leaders
act to heal rift
on parliament

By Magnus Linkiater

SCOTLAND'S political lead¬
ers are taking steps this week¬
end to patch up the bitter
divisions that have opened up
over the future of a Scottish
parliamenL 1 n separate
speeches in Glasgow, they
will emphasise the benefits
that a new parliament will
bring, and point to the posi¬
tive role that Scotland could
play on the world stage after
devolution.

The moves come after a
fortnight in which rows have
surfaced over whether there

should be a referendum on
independence in Ihe new par¬
liament The Scottish Nat¬
ional Party, buoyed by
opinion polls that placed
them slightly ahead of Lab¬
our, has called for an early
referendum to test the appe¬
tite of the Scottish people for
separate nationhood. Alex
Salmond. the party’s leader,
believes that although the
parliament has no constitu¬
tional right to call a referen¬
dum. it would be entitled to
consult voters on their
preference.

Labour has retaliated,
claiming that calls for a
referendum are divisive and
unnecessary, and has accused
the Nationalists of using the
Parliament to promote their
patty at the expense of the
national interest John Reid,
the Armed Forces Minister.

Reid: said the SNP was
stuck in a timewarp

said that the SNP mentality
was “stuck in an outdated
timewarp" while Brian Wil¬
son. the Scottish Office Minis¬
ter for Education and
Industry, said the party had
“confirmed its place in the
lower divisions of the fantasy
politics league”.

In a further setback for the
SNP. a poll in the Herald
newspaper showed that de¬
spite support for the party,
there had been virtually no
move towards the notion of
independence since the gener¬
al election among the major¬
ity of voters. Only 54 per cent
backed a separate Scotland.
Most of the current support
for the SNP comes because it
is seen as the main opposition
party in Scotland, and Labour
has been through a difficult
few months.

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Hague out of date on
Europe, says Brittan

■S

By Philip Webster, political editor

WILLIAM HAGUE faced a
head-on challenge to his
stance on Europe yesterday as
Sir Leon Brittan declared that
the single currency was the
natural complement to every¬
thing the Conservative Party
had stood for in the past two
decades.

Sir Leon effectively told Mr
Hague that he was out of date,
and that his stance on the
single currency risked push¬
ing the Conservatives towards
extinction.

Britain’s senior European
Commissioner said that the
“uncomfortable truth” for
some Conservatives was that
monetary union had obliged
many European governments
to make exactly the kind of
hard choices that Conserva¬
tive governments had carried
out in the 1980s: fiscal disci¬
pline. privatisation, deregula¬
tion and liberalisation.

In a straight sideswipe at
Mr Hague, Sir Leon said: “It
is on the shoulders of those
who are now claiming that the
EU is out of date that the label
of atavism and anachronism
weighs most heavily.

“It would be a shame of
tragic proportions if the party
were to tread the European
stage out of touch with reality
and dislocated from the
future. The Conservative Par¬
ty would truly become a party
of dinosaurs.”

Sir Leon said that, in many
ways. EMU was the greatest
vehicle for the export of Con¬
servative economic policies
that had ever been devised.
Speaking at the Carlton Club
in Central London, one of the
bastions of Toryism, the for¬
mer Cabinet minister
launched a direct onslaught
on Mr Hague’s analysis in a
speech in France Iasi week in
which the Tory leader dubbed
the single currency “a burning
building with no exits”.

In a point-by-point rebuttal.
Sir Leon said that Mr Hague’s
belief that the EU was a
postwar construction, aimed
at preventing farther wars in

Europe, was now long past its
sell-by date. Mr Hague
believed that the EU was a
victim of outdated thinking
forged in the 1950s to tackle
the problems of the 1940s.

But. Sir Leon said, to depict
the EU in those terms was a
“fundamentally flawed anach¬
ronism". He said that Mr
Hague was applying a 1980s
vision to a simplified carica¬
ture of the EU of the 1970s. “It
is not Europe that is out of.
date but the perception^ of
what is actually happening in
Europe today."

Sir Leon said it used-to be
fashionable to talk of a “for¬
tress Europe” in which the EU
was intent on restricting trade
with the outside world. But
now it was Europe that was
pushing harder and harder
for opening up trade, and the

Brittan. above, told
Hague his EMU stance
could destroy the party

Alternative
medicine
‘needs rules’

By Ian Murray

COMPLEMENTARY medi¬
cine should be well regulated
so that it can be freely availa¬
ble on the National Health Ser¬
vice. Frank Dobson told a con¬
ference held at the initiative of
the Prince of Wales yesterday.

The Health Secretary told
members of complementary
and alternative medicine org¬
anisations: “People want treat¬
ment which is dependable
whoever is providing ii. They
also want to be able to have
confidence in the professional
skill and integrity of the
practitioners."

The Prince called for more
research. “We need to commit
ourselves to a vigorous but
open-minded evaluation of
practice in all aspects of health
care,’’ he said.

3 . U* *

single market had created
economic dynamism tran- j
scending traditional frontiers.

He said Mr Hague had left ■.
out of his analysis the fact that ..
the drive towards an open and
flexible Eurppe had been ac¬
celerated by the advent of
EMU. The political will to
drive it forward with public
spending cuts and monetary
discipline .had been woefully
overlooked in. Britain, he said. .

Mr Hague's assertion that
meaningful political, legitima¬
cy could only reside in the
19th-century nation state was .
an outdated concept of sever- :;
eignty. Sir Leon added: “Wky
do not live in a Gaulliit i.
universe in which neatly segr - j
regated nations can neatly /*
divide the available cake of ii
sovereignty according to theirTi.
specific needs."

Ordinary voters understoodU
that sovereignty was a fluid:,':'
concept. The Tories werey
rightly coming to terms withiev
the moves towards decentraH jV
isafion of government in Scot-. :
land and Wales.

Ian Taylor, who quit as Mri
Hague’s front bench spokes-l
man in protest after the leader 3
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ty must recognise the impo^r
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continuing success on a globdLj
stager

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and windy Euro-blather”. /A;
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speak in this way. It is absurd
to dismiss the nation state as
he does. William Hague*.U-''
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vast majority of Conservfc-vV
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Gardens restore the imperial calm

A visit to Kew was free of angry veterans, but there were
protests before a lunch at No 10, reports. Alan Hamilton

kew Gardens in southwest
London are a haven of peace and
Botany and, for once during their
troubled state visit to London,
die Emperor and Empress of
Japan managed to elude the pur¬
suit of angry veterans for a
welcome hour of tranquility
there yesterday morning.

No former prisoners of war
turned their backs as the imper¬
ial couple arrived to visit a
recently restored replica of a
16th-century Japanese imperial
gateway that stands in the old
Palace of Kyoto, set in Kew's new
Japanese landscaped garden. A
sign at the entrance explains
that it provides a calming
atmosphere.

Formal Japanese gardens are
well known in Britain; what is

less known is that the _

Japanese have recently
developed a taste for

his Gaelic first name from
having been brought up in the
Outer Hebrides. Both being
scientists. Sir Ghillean and the
Emperor found much in
common.

But the peace was short-lived.
As the imperial couple drove to
their next engagement, lunch
with the Blairs and 60 invited
guests at Downing Street, a
group of about 50 veterans
positioned in Whitehall turned
their backs on the imperial car
and held up banners that seemed
directed as much at the Prime
Minister as they were at the
Emperor.

“Japanese brutality hurts,”
said one. “British duplicity
stinks.” said another, a reference
to Mr Blair's appeal to the

English gardening, with
at least one television

programme and several
weekly 'magazines de¬
voted to the art On the
balconies of the Tokyo
high-rise, bonsai is out
and colourful annuals
are in. The mood of calm ""™“
was enhanced fay Empress
Michiko, for the first time on the
state visit, choosing to appear in
traditional kimono, in a soft
peach colour that was particular¬
ly easy on the eye.

She was presented with an
unmistakeably English posy of
roses, honeysuckle and sweet
peas by Jennifer Kirkham. the
eight-year-old daughter of Kew's
horticultural director, who had
learnt a few words of Japanese.
The Empress took the girl’s hand
and insisted that she accompany
her for the rest of the couple's
visit

The Emperor was shown
around fay Professor Sir
Ghillean Prance, Kew’s distin¬
guished director who acquired

6 The Emperor is one of the
most powerless heads of
state in the world, but may
be the most educated 5

veterans not to demonstrate dur¬
ing the state visit and his refusal
to back their claims for
compensation.

The protesters did win one
minor concession. Arthur Tither-
ington, chairman of the Japanese
Labour Camp Survivors' As¬
sociation, who is enjoying the
highest-profile week of his life,
handed in a letter to Downing
Street asking for a meeting with
the Prime Minister. A Downing
Street aide promised later that
Mr Blair would arrange a meet¬
ing with the association within
the next two weeks.

Lunch was a demotic affair, in
keeping with Mr Blairs style,
which dictates that the great and
the good should be rubbed from

the guest lists in favour of the
ordinary and the relevant
Yesterday^ guests included no
other members of the Cabinet
Instead, they included John Hol¬
land. who led an international
team to rescue victims of the 1995
Kobe earthquake; Simon Bar¬
nes, who pushed himself the
length of Japan in a wheelchair
to raise money for spinal injury
research; Sugumi Ota, a Japa¬
nese sculptress based in Britain;
and Elizabeth Silver, a commod¬
ity trader working in London for
a Tokyo finance house.

The Emperor of Japan is one
of most powerless heads of state
in the world, bur he is probably
the most educated. He is a
marine biologist of international
standing and has had more than
_ 20 scientific papers pub¬
lished in the leading
learned journals of the
world. There is probably
no one alive who knows
more about the gobi fish.
In recognition of his
scientific achievements,
conducted in his own
laboratory at the taper-
ial Palace in Tokyo, the
Royal Society invited
him to a reception yesterday
afternoon to present him with its
new decoration, the King
Charles II Medal. Named after
the society’s founder, the medal
has been struck to honour for¬
eign heads of state who “make
an exceptional contribution to
the promotion of science and its
place in society”

Not surprisingly, the society
said yesterday that it envisaged
that its bestowal of such an
honour would be "rare”. The
Emperor, who was accompanied
to the ceremony by the Duke of
Edinburgh, is the first recipient

Philip Howard, page 24
Letters, page 25
Brian MacArthnr. page 43

Jennifer Kirkham. daughter of Kew’s horticultural director, presenting a posy to the Empress

Brief hearing winds up PoWs’ case for compensation

From Robert Whymant in Tokyo

THE final encounter in a 3*2-year
legal battle by British FoWs and
civilian internees to win compensa¬
tion from the Japanese Government
lasted less than five minutes.

After the briefest of hearings in a
Tokyo courtroom yesterday;, law--
yers for the PoWs said it was.
expected to take several months for

die judges to rule in die case. The
lawsuit, for £14,000 each in repara¬
tions and an official apology from
the Japanese Government, was
started in January 1995 cm behalf of
some 20J300 Allied captives of the
Japanese Army.

In ftbruary, Tokyo District Court
was the scene of dramatic testimony
by Arthur Titherington, chairman
of the Japanese Labour Camps

Survivors’ Association, who fought
bade tears as be described the brutal
regime in Japanese wartime slave
camps. Yesterday, in final pleading,
counsel for the PoWs and die
Japanese Government simply sub¬
mitted written arguments on die
question of prisoners’ rights under
the Hague Convention, a pivotal
issue in the cnmpensafioncase.

'In the course of the court case, the

plaintiffs, have argued that die
convention obliges Japan, as a
signatory, to compensate mvkJuals
mistreated in its wartime prison
camps. Japan has consistently de¬
nied that individuals have the right
to seek redress, and has dung to its
defence that all claims were settled
at government level in 1951 under
the San Francisco a greem ents. ;

In March, die Government told •

the court that it wanted more time to
make a fresh translation of perti¬
nent clauses in the Hague Conven¬
tion, which is written in French.
work was undertaken by the For¬
eign Ministry, the sole authority in
Japan for interpreting international
treaties. The ministry, which is
dosety monitoring die _

Is intensely worried that ff
PoWs win die lawsuit thousands.

or even millions, of other victims of
Japanese aggression in the Second
World War would be encouraged to
press their own claims for
compensation -

Artec, two months of translation
work, government lawyers said
yesterday that they had found no
reason to revise their view that the
convention provided no basis f<$
dams by individual PoWs.

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Motorway
protesters
warned of
deathtrap
tunnels

By A Staff Reporter

PROTESTERS camped along
the planned route or Britain’s
first toll motorway have been
given a warning by police that
treacherous ground condi¬
tions could turn their tunnels
into deathtraps.

Staffordshire Police have
served warning notices at
three sites along die 27-mile
route of the Birmingham
northern relief road that those
responsible for any deaths or
injuries as a result of tunnel¬
ling could be prosecuted

One of the sites, the Green
Wood Camp, is part of a sand
and gravel quarry and the
ground is unsuitable for exca¬
vations. “We don’t know the
full extent of the tunnelling,
but we do know that the
geology of this area cannot
support underground struc¬
tures of any depth,” Steve
Green, the Assistant Chief
Constable, said yesterday.

“They are likely to have
been constructed in a negli¬
gent or reckless manner which
completely fails to comply
with the most basic rules of
mines safety or excavation.
Many people could become
trapped underground This
form of protest is directly
putting lives at risk."

A cottage occupied by squat¬
ters had also been left in a
dangerous condition. “Sup¬
ports had been damaged and
a stairwell removed This
building could have collapsed
at any time, and protesters
could have been trapped be¬
neath the rubble." Mr Green
said

There are between 20 and 30
“eco-warriors” occupying
three sites at Greenwood
Camp. Moneymore Cottages
and the Milestone Plantation.
Mr Green said: “To date, no
one has died as a result of an
environmental protest and we
want it to stay that way.”

But protesters dismissed his
claims, saying that they were
experienced tunnellers who
knew what they were doing.
Thomas Davies, one of the
protesters, said “Safety has
always been of paramount
importance to us. We take it
very seriously and do not
intend to- injure anyone.
Everything we do is done as
safely as possible."

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HEADS’ CONFERENCE

Teachers’ leader

wants pay to be

based on results

By John O’Leary, education editor

TEACHERS should face an¬
nual assessments that take
account of their pupils' exami¬
nation results to qualify for
substantial performance bo¬
nuses, a head teachers' leader
said yesterday.

David Hart general secre¬
tary of the National Associ¬
ation of Head Teachers, broke
ranks with other teaching
unions, which have always
opposed performance related
pay, to outline radical propos¬
als for a new contract for the
profession. He claimed that a
break with salaries based
purely on seniority represent¬
ed the only realistic chance of
raising pay levels sufficiently
to aid recruitment.

The new contract .would
give teachers a 37 l 2-hour week
with much greater flexibility
over working hours. Head
teachers could then negotiate
“second contracts'* with staff
to run out-of-hours activities
such as sports and choirs.

Under the proposals, which
will be pul to ministers short¬
ly. classroom teachers would
be restricted to a salary of
£23.000 unless the head felt
that they had “demonstrated

sustained fully acceptable
teaching skills'* during the
year. Mr Han said he expect¬
ed a majority of senior teach¬
ers to satisfy the requirements,
opening the way to salaries of
up to £31,000.

Only teachers taking on
additional responsibilities
would be eligible for pay of up
to £40,000, the maximum
proposed by the Government
for the new advanced skills
teaching grade. Delegates to
the NAHTs conference at
Eastbourne have already re¬
jected the new grade, arguing
that too few will benefit

Currently, a newly qualified
teacher earns £14,751 a year,
which will rise to £15.012 in
December when the second
half of the annual pay rise is
awarded by the Government
An experienced teacher at the
top or the pay scale, who has
no extra responsibilities, re¬
ceives £22.023. rising to
£22.410 in December.

Mr Hart estimated that his
proposals would cost more
than £200 million to imple¬
ment allowing for increased
differentials between heads
and deputies and their class¬

room staff. Nothing less
would overcome growing re¬
cruitment difficulties.

He told delegates: “To those
who say that the status quo
should be preserved, 1 would
give this answer if we are
unwilling to contemplate radi¬
cal but acceptable changes, we
could well find ourselves kiss¬
ing goodbye to a national pay
and conditions of service sys¬
tem sooner than we imagine."

He acknowledged that
many heads would be reluc¬
tant to take responsibility for
different levels of staff pay.
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would soon be accepted.

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The legal requirement for daily school assemblies should be relaxed, the head teachers’ conference decided almost unanimously yesterday ^

Heads shun church line on assemblies

By John O’Leary

Education, page 47

HEAD teachers have urged the Gov¬
ernment to ignore the Church of
England and relax the law requiring
schools to hold daily Christian
assemblies.

A near-u nanim ous vote at the
conference yesterday called for a
review of the law. Delegates backed
demands for schools to be allowed to
hold only one assembly a week,
without the obligation to include
Christian worship.

Head teachers argue that non-
Christians should not be compelled to

lead religious worship. Inspectors
estimate that 70 per cent of secondary
schools do not comply with the law.
many because they do not have halls
big enough to take all their pupils.

David Blunkett the Education and
Employment Secretary, has refused to
order a review of collective worship
because a year-long consultation
foiled to reach a consensus. A leaked
Civil Service memo advised ministers
to maintain a low profile oo the issue
because so few parents complained
that the law was being flouted.

However, David Hart the associa¬
tion's general secretary, urged Mr

Blunkett to think again because it was
intolerable that head teachers should
be forced into breaking the law. “If the
law is an ass, as I believe it to be in this
case, then something has to be done to
change it."

Canon John Hall, general secretary
of the Church of England Board of
Education, said m a statement re¬
leased before the debate that the
Church would resist any attempt to
change the law. “One of the key tasks
of the education system is to teach
people to pray." he said.

But the other main Churches
backed a review. Methodists said the

law was unworkable and the Roman
Catholic Church said it woujd accept
greater flexibility only if daily
worship were retained in someform.

At the conference, Tony Williams, a
member of the NAHTs executive, said
it was “dangerous" to suggest that
teaching children to pray was the
responsibility of schools. “I believe the
key task of the education system is to
teach people to question and to think."

Mr Hart said he would be request¬
ing a meeting with Mr Blunkett to
press the case for change.

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HOME NEWS 15

Hume condemns
obsession with

sex and shopping

Cardinal urges new morality, writes Ruth Gledhill

SOCIETY'S twin obsessions
with sex and shopping were
criticised by Cardinal Basil
Hume yesterday. The Arch¬
bishop of Westminster said
that teenagers were being
pressured into sex and that
society was living off “a dwin¬
dling supply af spiritual and
moral capital”

The cardinal, spiritual lead¬
er of the four million Roman
Catholics in England and
Wales, outlined his vision of a
new society, calling Tor a
rediscovery of spiritual, reli¬
gious and moral values. He
was delivering the 15th Arnold
Goodman lecture for the
Charities Aid Foundation at
Glaziers Hall near London
Bridge.

The passion and complexity
of his lecture, titled: Searching
for Purpose: Cod and the
Future of our Society, were
indications of the depths of his
concern at the direction society
is taking. He said that
shopping centres had become
the new cathedrals in the “cult
of the consumer".

Other church leaders, such
as the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, Dr George Carey, share
many of the cardinal’s con¬
cerns. “For many people, it

seems, shopping has become a
powerful source of meaning
and fulfilment," Cardinal
Hume said. "The cult of the
consumer has gone deep."

He opened his lecture by
describing Britain as it might
be seen through the eyes of an
unbiased visitor. “1 would take
her /the visitor! first to one of
the new large shopping cen¬
tres." he said. “She would see
the extraordinary' architec¬
ture. the massive domes and
steeples, and inside halls and
shops like naves and side-
chapels."

The visitor might well ask
what God was worshipped
there, he said. “We would
notice that many people
seemed to come simply to be
there, often to gaze in the
windows and to be among
other people, and not neces¬
sarily just to shop. It is almost
as if the only institution to
which we all belong now is the
market"

He said teenagers were
being encouraged, even
pressurised, into sex at an
early age. “There is a changed
understanding of sexual rela¬
tionships. with sexual involve¬
ment often being seen as
separate from procreation and

Mothers reject
formal classes

in parenting

By Alexandra Frean. social affairs correspondent

FORMAL parenting classes
designed to teach adults how
to improve their relationship®
with their children fail
because they rarely address
the real personal and practical
problems faced by families,
according to a new study.

The report published by
Save the Children Scotland,
found most parents were re¬
luctant to attend such courses
because they associated them
with “problem" families. The
Government's committee on
the family has recommended
the creation of a network of
voluntary classes.

Elizabeth Cutting, of Save
the Children Scotland, said

that even people _

who wanted ad¬
vice on how to
bring up children
did not like the
idea of formal
classes, largely
because of the
connotations in
the Govern¬
ment’s rhetoric
that these were
meant for “bad
parents’’ and

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ren". kinder the
Crime and Disor¬
der Bill, for ex-

trums and bed-wetting to pro¬
viding a healthy diet on a low
income. Many found that such
groups took on the role of the
extended family.

“Frequently, parents do not
. realise that certain behaviour¬
al issues are related to a stage
and not behavioural 'prob¬
lems’ as such. Parents found
that sharing concerns with
other parents made them feel
more self-confident,” Ms Cut¬
ting said.

The study said that many
parents felt isolated once their
children reached school age,
having lost contact with sup¬
port structures such as health
visitors and parent and tod¬
dler groups. The
report, part of a

6 Parents
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want a
formal
dass but
practical
support 9

ample, parents of offenders up
to the age of 17 may be forced
to attend parenting classes.

“Parents do not want a for¬
mal class, where they are told
what to do to improve their
child's behaviour. They do
want support, however, to
help them cope with a range of
needs and they want more in¬
formation about child devel¬
opment, nutrition, first aid
and health," she said.

They overwhelmingly sup¬
ported the creation of discus¬
sion groups or drop-in centres
where they could meet other
parents and get information
and advice on a range of
problems from temper tan-

three-year pro¬
ject, recommends
the creation of
“parents’ rooms"
in schools where
parents can meet
and forge greater
links with the
schools. Adele
Hamilton, who
took part in the
study, helped to
persuade her
sons’ primary
school to set aside
a classroom as a
parents’ room for two hours
one morning a week.

“ft is great." Ms Hamilton
said. “You can sit and have a
chat and listen to other mums.
Sometimes you hear some¬
thing that you think will be a
good tip for you. We can also
organise things we want to:
next week we have someone
from the Brook Advisory
Centre coming to teach us how
to teach sex eduation to our
children." .

Most of the approximately
300 parents who took pan in
the study were women. The
project now wants to find out
how best to include fathers in

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even from commitment.
There is an implicit reduction
of sexual intercourse to a form
of achievement guaranteeing
a certain teenage status."

fn family life there was
"much to celebrate, but much
to lament*’. The visitor might
be puzzled at the growth in
cohabitation and the common
use of the term “partner",
testifying to the “provisional
nature”of many relationships
today.

“Beneath the changing pat¬
terns of work and family life,
she would observe a tension
that you and [ would recognise
as a seismic shift between men
and women," Cardinal Hume
said.

But there was much in
society that pointed to “the
truth of religion", he said. “1
believe the human bean is
naturally searching for the
ultimate meaning and pur¬
pose of life.”

More than ever, people now
needed to slow down and be
still. “To survive we have to
escape from a mentality that
sees society just as a mass of
individuals placed side by side
without any concern or re¬
sponsibility for one another,"
he said.

AUSTIN HARGRAVE

The Grange, a country house in Hampshire, is to host a seven-day opera festival after permission was granted by Winchester City Counci]

Mozart marks stately home’s revival

By Marcus Binney

ONE of England’s most magnificent
country houses is to reverberate to the
sound of opera after standing for
nearly 30 years as an empty shell.

Yesterday Winchester City Council
gave permission for Wasfi Kani. the
conductor who used to run Gars-
inglon Opera, another country-house
venture, to hold an opera festival at
The Grange in Hampshire. The
seven-day inaugural festival, in July,
will open with a gala evening

celebrating the history of The
Grange: a mainly Regency building.
It will continue with a new produc¬
tion of Mozart’s The Marriage of
Figaro and conclude with a concert
of opera favourites performed by the
Grimethorpe Colliery Band.

Guests will watch the opera in the
elegant Orangery, designed, like the
house itself, in the form of a Classical
temple. The red velvet seats were
bought from the Royal Opera House
when it closed for refurbishmenL

The audience will be served cham¬

pagne under the Greek Doric
portico and dine in the main rooms.
They will be greeted by the spectacle
of magnificent Classical interiors
frozen at the moment they were half
stripped out for the demolition that
was planned in 1972.

The derelict state of The Grange
has attracted film companies: it
recently served as the set for a film
about Pushkin’s anti-hero Eugene
Onegin and was transformed into a
decaying Russian country house. The
cellars became dressing rooms and a

green room and these will now serve
Grange Park Opera.

Ms Kani said: “We have a ten-year
agreement from Lord Ashburton, the
owner of the estate and English
Heritage (which manages it) to hold a
festival. Like John Christie at
Gfyndebourne. we are opening with
Figaro . which is a sure box-office hit”
The Figaro is a sell-out

Countering residents' concerns,
Marie CnessweU, the company’s
spokesman, said: "The opera will be
inaudible from the nearest houses.”

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By Lawrence Freedman

CONDEMNATION of the In¬
dian and Pakistani nuclear
tests has been widespread
and robust but when it comes
from the established nuclear
powers there is an unavoid¬
able whiff of hypocrisy. If they
consider these weapons to be
of great value to security, why
should not others reach the
same conclusion?

If deterrence helped to keep
the peace in a divided Europe
during the Cold War. might it
not also work in other divided
regions, such as South-East
Asia or the Middle East?

Arguments to the effect that
the established nuclear pow¬
ers have earned the right to
possess these weapons by
demonstrating the requisite
maturity patronise the new¬
comers and serve to confirm
them in their conviction that
this is all about status and in¬
ternational hierarchy. A more
subtle, and persuasive, ver¬
sion of this argument concen¬
trates on the many tense
moments of the nuclear age.
pointing out how acquisition
of nuclear weapons created
extra insecurities.

The capacity to ensure each
otheris destruction may have
created a condition of mutual
deterrence between the United
States and the Soviet Union,
but not before both explored
possibilities for decisive first
strikes that would allow them

COMMENTARY

to claim victory in a nuclear
war. Both sides became exces¬
sively dependent upon the
quality of their early-warning
systems and their capacity to
control their forces in a crisis.
The past half-century contains
hair-raising stories of false
alerts, straying aircraft and
temperamental technologies.
Tt was some time before the
reassuring paraphernalia of

C The past ten
years have
shown it is not
that easy to get
out of a nuclear
relationship 9

hotlines and confidence-build¬
ing measures were in place.

Entering into new nuclear
relationships can be danger¬
ous. China's determination to
join the club was a key factor
in its split with the Soviet
Union, and then almost led it
into war with its former ally.
As their troops clashed in 1969
along their disputed border,
there came dark, hints from
Moscow that consideration
was being given to a pre¬

emptive strike. It was also
China's first atomic test in
1964 that galvanised the Indi¬
an nuclear programme. The
Chinese may now be rueing
the help they gave to Pakistan
to keep up with India.

Nor. as the past decade has
made clear, is it easy to get out
of a nuclear relationship.
Aside from the obvious and
familiar point that the tech¬
nology cannot be unlearnt,
even decommissioning mis¬
siles has turned out to be a
slow, expensive process.

Despite the responsibility
shown by the Russian authori¬
ties in attempting to haul in all
the country's small nuclear
weapons and render the rest of
its arsenal safe, the combina¬
tion of suffering such inner
turmoil and a large, decaying
nuclear establishment re¬
mains truly frightening. The
situation is not helped by-the
Russians concluding that they
now need nuclear deterrence
more than ever, as their
conventional forces suffer
from financial cutbacks, poor
morale and administrative
chaos.

Mutual deterrence did work
during the Cold War because
political leaders became con¬
vinced that nuclear weapons
had made major war truly ir¬
rational. Occasionally, as in
the 1962 Cuban missile crisis,
they pushed their luck, but
even then caution prevailed.
There is no reason to suppose

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Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's Prime Minister, vowed yesterday after the five nuclear tests that his country backed the goal of non-proliferation

that, in other parts of the
world, policymakers cannot
make their calculations with
equivalent prudence. A major
war tends to be a high-risk
option, with or without weap¬
ons of mass destruction.

Nor are countries such as
India and Pakistan neophytes
in this business. Both have
been assumed to be nuclear
powers for many years. In¬
dia's first test was in 1974 and.
not long after, it became
apparent that Pakistan had
acquired the relevant technol¬

ogy. Their tests were more
political statements than mili¬
tary moves, geared to domes¬
tic morale as much as external
enemies.

Their nuclear relationship
did not suddenly become dan¬
gerous. It has been dangerous
tor some time, and made more
so by the enduring and bitter
argument over Kashmir. If
anything, by making their
nuclear capabilities overt they
may find it easier to address
the problems they create more
directly in their bilateral rela¬

tionships, confirming prom¬
ises not to attack each other's
nuclear facilities.

Once, however, the two
countries have placed nuclear
deterrence at the heart of their
relationship they will find it
difficult to escape from its
logic. This is not a capability
readily relinquished, except in
the most benign security envi¬
ronment, ana it carries re¬
sponsibilities for care and
maintenance, and strict con¬
trols, that can tax the most
advanced state. In some ways.

as important a development in
recent days as Pakistan's
catch-up nuclear test may be
the growing awareness in
India of the costs, political and
economic, of the country's
nuclear ambition.

The hope for some time has
been that nuclear weapons
may turn out to be so irrele¬
vant to everyday international
affairs that they can be steadi¬
ly marginalised, even if not
wholly eliminated- The explo¬
sions in South Asia were a
setback to that hope, by

demonstrating that the weap¬
ons continue to be valued.

We still live in the nuclear
age and will do so far some
years to come, possibly bene¬
fiting from the extra caution it
induces in our political leaders
during periods of conflict, but
reliant all the time (Hi their
responsibility in the face of its
awesome power.

The author is Professor of War
Studies at King's College,
London.

Leading article, page 25

Club of Five faces dilemma of closing ranks or widening doors

by Michael Evans

DEFENCE CORRESPONDENT

TH E previously exclusive dub of five
declared nudear powers is now faced
with a dilemma: whether to maintain
a tough condemnatory stance to¬
wards India and Pakistan or tacitly
to accept them as members and put
pressure on them to sign the treaties
that until now they have refused to
support

India's five tests, and yesterday's
five tests carried out by Pakistan,
have undermined the whole strategy
that has lain at the heart of the drive
for full ratification of the Comprehen¬
sive Test Ban Treaty. The signing of
the treaty by the five powers and
about 145 other non-nudear coun¬

tries was intended to demonstrate to
the so-called threshold nudear states,
such as India and Pakistan, that the
exdusive dub was ready to begin the
process of disarmament

Now the Comprehensive Test Ban
Treaty is in serious disarray, even
though the breaches have been com¬
mitted by two of the countries that
are not signatories.

United Nations offidals involved
in the Conference on Disarmament
talks m Geneva said yesterday they
feared that some countries that had
signed the treaty, and the Nudear
Non-Proliferation Treaty, may now
go their own way. The greatest fear is
mat Middle East countries, such as
Syria, Libya and Iran, may be tempt¬
ed to disengage from the treaties.

The negotiations that have been
under way in Geneva to prepare for a
review of the Nudear Non-Prolifera¬
tion Treaty in 2000 have broken up
without progress. UN sources said
there were deep divisions, with the
United States and Russia showing no
interest in disarmament, and others,
induding Canada, New Zealand and
Australia, arguing for a tougher
treaty. The Americans have ex¬
pressed concern about the language
of a tougher treaty because of the
impact it might have on Israel, one of
the undeclared nudear powers.

Now the future of the two key
“disarmament" treaties will be in
doubt unless India and Pakistan can
be persuaded to sign them and end
the possibility of a nuclear arms race.

However, UN sources said that
Pakistan was still far behind India in
accumulating weapons-grade nu¬
dear material and there was the risk
that the Pakistanis would pursue an
accelerated programme until it had
built up a large stock of material to
convert into warheads. Pakistan is
supposed to have produced.enough
nudear material for six or seven
bombs. India has always had more
weapons-grade material.

In stria legal terms, neither India
nor Pakistan is a nuclear power. The
definition of an official nuclear state
was set in 1968. It was agreed then
that there would be five nudear
powers because each had carried out
tests before January 1.1967.

Now the five official nuclear pow¬

ers will have to decide whether to
accept India and Pakistan as de facto
members of the dub. UN sources
said that although this would be
difficult for the five powers to
swallow, the only realistic strategy
now was to focus all efforts on
improving the Nudear Non-Prolifer¬
ation Treaty to discourage other
countries from following file same
route as India and Pakistan.

If India and Pakistan could also be
persuaded to sign the Comprehen¬
sive Test Ban Treaty, as China and
France did after they had completed
their final tests, the exdusive dub
might then have seven members,
plus Israel as an undeclared nudear
power, “but at least they would be
covered by the same rules”.

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THE end of decades of
nudear ambiguity between
India and Pakistan has
placed the two military giants
of South Asia in a position to
exercise restraint Having
demonstrated their potential
to destroy each other, it has
become politically possible
for each to contemplate a
mutual slowdown in the
nudear race.

Theirs is a contest between
equals. Neither can outper¬
form the other. Five nuclear
blasts each in 17 days have
proved a mutual destructive
capability that should chill
both sides and revive the old
superpower concept of Mad
(mutually assured destruc¬
tion). The nudear language of
South Asia is an echo of the
Cold War. The fears that fuel
it are no less irrational.

India is willing to “move
towards" signing the Compre¬
hensive Test Ban Treaty, as it
vaguely puts it since it appar-

There are no more nuclear secrets in South Asia. This is

a contest between equals, Christopher Thomas writes

ently has neither any need nor
desire to carry out more tests
in its clamour to be the first to
place nuclear tips on its
missiles. Pakistan might
equally find no objection to
signing the pact It is also
racing to miniaturise nudear
warheads for missile delivery.

Both have excellent missiles
and nuclear scientists. They
will pass the nudear winning
post together, leaving each
other's major dries equally
vulnerable, their economies
equally shunned by interna¬
tional investors, their stand¬
ing in the world equally
sullied — and their impover¬
ished majorities condemned
because no serious money
wilt come to such a place.

More sober voices will In
due course be heard above the

Fernandes yesterday

present racket of jingoism,
which comes wrapped in a
green Islamic flag from one
side and in a saffron robe of
Hindu militancy on the other.

The hope of restraint rests
now on an equality of fear.
Each has the other’s measure,
as George Fernandes, the
Indian Defence Minister,
made dear yesterday: there
are no big nuclear secrets in
South Asia any more. Even
the extremists know the race
is unwinnabie.

Restraint will nevertheless
not be in the vocabulary of
Islamic hardliners in Paki¬
stan nor of Hindu fundamen¬
talists in India, both wanting
to press ahead with becoming
even more sophisticaled
nudear superpowers. But the
explosion of ten nudear de¬
vices. assuming there are no
more, means that the febrile
atmosphere of the past few
weeks can be allowed to cool,
giving an opening for calmer

counsels. Indeed, that is hap¬
pening in India, where there
are mounting doubts that
testing was a good idea. The
opposition Congress Party is
waiting for public opinion to
shift once the economic cost
becomes dear, and then it will
pounce.

The Government’s short¬
term political gain may trans¬
late into long-term loss, unless
it calls an early general elec¬
tion. That would be a dreadful
admission of motives.

There will similarly be an
erosion of euphoria in Paki¬
stan as the young and ill-
defined nation comes under
the lash of international sanc¬
tions. It may have gambled
that Japan and the West
would treat it leniently, for
fear of destroying what is left
of a mismanaged and corrup¬
tion-weakened economy.

President Clinton plans to
visit the region at the end of
the year, but only if he is

assured of leaving with some¬
thing worthwhile. He tele¬
phoned Nawaz Sharif, the
Pakistani Prime Minister,
three times or four times —
the last time on Wednesday —
only to be snubbed.

Mr Clinton will not want to
be spumed further in person:
if nudear restraint is not on
offer, he may not visit — thus
joining the ranks of most US
Presidents who considered
the region a waste of time,
other than for exploiting its
location in the Cold War
contest over Afghanistan.

However, the Clinton Ad¬
ministration is anxious to
intensify its diplomatic in¬
volvement in a part of the
world that represents by far
the greatest threat of nudear
war anywhere in the world,
and where more than a sixth
of mankind lives. The two old
enemies could easily stumble
into another war in Kashmir.
Outside involvement is vital.

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OVERSEAS NEWS 17

Leading
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PAKISTAN’S NUCLEAR TESTS

By Michael Binyox,
DIPLOMATIC EDITOR,
and Helen Rum below

BRITAIN yesterday expressed
dismay at Pakistan's nudear
tests, and instructed ihe Brit¬
ish High Commissioner in
Islamabad to convey a strong
protest on behalf of all Euro¬
pean Union member states.

“We condemn this action.

. which runs counter to the wiii
expressed by 149 signatories to
the Comprehensive Test Bar
Treaty to cease nuclear testing
and to efforts to strengthen th -
global non-proliferation rre;
ty," Robin Cook, the Foreis;
Secretary, said. The tests, i
added, accentuated grave co .
cem about the increased ris.-
of nuclear and missile prolifeg
arion in South Asia and u
escalating tension.

Mr Cook urged India and
Pakistan to adhere uncondi¬
tionally to the nuclear treaties
and to start talks on ceasing
production of fissile material.
He urged both countries, and
others in the region, to refrain
from further tests, to engage in
a dialogue that addressed the
causes of the tension, and to
tty to build confidence rather
than seek confrontation.

World leaders expressed
their disappointment at yes¬
terday’s tests and urged Paki¬
stan and India to stop the
accelerating nudear arms
race in Asia. As well as
Britain, the world’s other ma¬
jor nudear powers — Ameri¬
ca. Russia. France and China
— issued strong
condemnations.

In Moscow, the Foreign
Ministry said it had “the
deepest regret and concern"

REACTION

over the tests, which would do
nothing to advance peace in
the region or the world, while
Gennadi Zyuganov, the Com¬
munist Party leader, said the
tests were a dangerous result
of the collapse of the Russian
and American balance after
the Cold Wir.

Ghina. which had been the
. n's sole nudear power
- -ndia’s tests on May 11.
regretted rhat Pakistan
decided to enter the
. - race. “The Chinese
tmem is deeply con-
- and uneasy about the
; -t arms race in South
.. . said a statement from
■reign Minisny.

-nee deplored'ihe rests.

. - . i it said ran counter to
. . J efforts to prevent
. -..•■dear proliferation. The For-
Ministry said: “France
regrets thai Pakistan did not
take account of calls made to it
to show restraint."

Nato attacked the latest
development Javier Solana,
’the Secretary-Genera), said:
‘We strongly condemn both
Pakistan and India's nudear
tests, which have profound
implications for the security of
the region and beyond."

.. Klaus Kinkel. the German
Foreign Minister, said it was
unfortunate that Pakistan had
“disregarded the will of the
international community for a
definitive end to all nuclear
tests”, and instead answered
India "with the same coin".
Germany had cancelled bilat¬
eral talks scheduled with Paki¬
stan next month, the
Development Ministry said.

Pakistanis in Karachi celebrate after Nawaz Sharif, their Prime Minister, announced five nudear tests. The 1 decision has been condemned by the major nudear powers

First strike could be key to Islamabad strategy

THE derision by Pakistan to test five
nudear derices yesterday has far
greater and more disturbing conse¬
quences for the region than simply
marching India's actions this month.

Unlike India, where the nuclear
programme remains firmly under
civilian control, there is no doubt
that the military are deeply involved
in Pakistan’s nuclear planning, ap¬
parently forcing Nawaz Sharif, the
Prime Minister, to authorise the tests
despite his reluctance. More impor¬
tantly, while India regards its
nudear deterrent as a weapon of last
resort nudear first strike could
become a key. part of the Pakistani
military’s defence strategy.

For India, which enjoys a growing
military superiority over Pakistan,
nudear weapons are necessary only
to deter others from using them, so
that the armed forces can go about
winning a conventional war if
necessary. As the Indian leadership
repeated after its recent tests, con¬
ventional war might be necessary if
Pakistani support for insurgents m
Kashmir crosses a certain threshold.

For Pakistan, the expectation is

Yesterday’s tests will have far more disturbing
consequences than Delhi’s, Eric Arnett says

much grander. Since the late 1980s,
when the ability to field nudear
weapons was officially acknowl¬
edged, Pakistani officials have been
promoting the view that their
nudear capability could deter India
from waging a conventional war.
Mushahid Hussain. Information
Secretary for the ruling Pakistan
Muslim League, said in 1991: "The
only reason recent confrontations
between the Pakistani and Indian
armies were not converted into
conflict was the nudear factor. 1 *

But Pakistani leaders apparently
do not believe that the nudear stand¬
off obliges them to stop running the
risk of supporting the Kashmir in¬
surgency or shooting across the
border. In such circumstances, war
is possible. It is in Pakistan’s efforts
to make its nudear deterrent more
credible that the risk lies. One way
that deterrence can be bolstered is by
making threats to behave recklessly.

Pakistani mflitaiy leaders fully com¬
prehend what Richard Nixon and
Henry Kissinger called the “mad¬
man theory” of deterrence.

Asad Durrani the former director-
of Inter-Services Intelligence, ac¬
knowledged in 1995 that Pakistan
could hope to deter war only if
Indian planners believe “we are
primed, almost desperate to use our
nudear capabilities when our nat¬
ional objectives are threatened: for
example, a major crackdown on the
freedom movement in Kashmir".

Ghulam Ishaq Khan, who was
then President, seems to have been
foreshadowing Mr Durrani’s advice
when he claimed in 199ft “In the
event of war with India, Pakistan
would use nudear weapons at an
early stage."

In contrast India’s strategy is
based on deploying a few nudear
weapons kept out of reach of Pak¬
istani aircraft India is thought to

Kissinger “madman theory"

have prepared enough plutonium
for 20 weapons, which would be
delivered by its Jaguar or Mirage
aircraft Pakistan’s desire to appear
ready to use nudear weapons to
stave off defeat would require die
deployment of many ballistic mis¬
siles that could carry low-yield
weapons to tactical targets, for
example; Indian tank divirions oper¬
ating in the Rajasthan desert
Such a missile force would mean

that Pakistan needs to produce more
fissile materia] for nudear weapons
and ballistic missiles, even if no
more nudear tests were needed.

Again, it is likely that longer-range
weapons will also be seen as neces¬
sary in the hope of deterring nudear
retaliation. Pakistan is thought to
have enough highly enriched urani¬
um for about five weapons after
yesterday’s tests. Until India
achieved air superiority, those could
be carried to targets by Fteoch-
supplied Mirage aircraft (American
officials have said that the US-
supplied Fife cannot be used for
nudear delivery).

Furthermore, because the Indian
Air Force is likely to be pounding
Pakistani airbases, radar stations
and command-and-control sites in
any conventional war. Pakistan will
either have to use nudear weapons
early or risk losing its ability to use
them as the war continues.

O Eric Arnett is a project leader at
the Stockholm International Peace
Research Institute and author of
Nudear Weapons and Aims Control
in South Asia after the Tfcsf Ban.

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Jakarta shapes
reform for free
polls next year

THE TIMES FRIDAY MAY 291998

From James Pringle in Jakarta

INDONESIA'S top political
leaders started work yesterday
on a complete reform of the
electoral system so that free
general elections — the coun¬
try’s first — can be held next
year.

The moves came as Derek
Fatchett, the Minister of State
at the Foreign Office, became
the first foreign government
representative to meet Presi¬
dent Habibie. Afterwards Mr
Fatchett said he had empha¬
sised to President Habibie that
it was “essential to maintain
the momentum of political
reform".

As Jakarta parliamentari¬
ans met Dr Habibie, students
demonstrated outside parlia¬
ment, calling for him to be
replaced by a transitional
government until elections can
be held. While their protest
sparked no real tension with

the troops guarding the build¬
ing, police in Sumatra in¬
creased patrols after a protest
against government corrup¬
tion turned violent with mobs
burning cars and Chinese-
owned shops. It was the first
riot since the former President
Suharto resigned last week.

In the capital Harmoka the
parliamentary Speaker, told
reporters after meeting Dr
Habibie and senior members
of his Cabinet that a special
session of the People's Consul¬
tative Assembly (MPR) would
be called late this year or early
in 1999 to approve changes in
electoral law, necessary before
polling.

The 1.000-member MPR,
which includes the 500 mem¬
bers of parliament and nomi¬
nated civilian and military
officers, is Indonesia's top
decision-making body. One

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added: "What is needed is a
complete revamp of the polit¬
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how many political parties
there should be.

“All this can’t be done
overnight, but the sooner the
better in terms of internal
stability and international
confidence."

After meeting President Ha¬
bibie, Mr Fatchett, who said
he was acting as Tony Blairs
special emissary, said further
reforms should “lead to more
accountable and transparent
government, which meets the
democratic aspirations of the
Indonesian people". He add¬
ed: “Second, the reform pro¬
cess must be given concrete
form soon. The way forward is
to publish a specific timetable
for revising political legisla¬
tion, with a fixed date for new

Derek Fatchett, the Foreign Office Minister, at a meeting in Jakarta yesterday with Xanana Gusmao, the jailed East Timor resistance leader

elections." The ' minister
emphasised that political and
economic reform go together.

Mr Fatchett also met
Xanana Gusmao, the jailed
East Timorese resistence lead¬
er who is serving a 20-year

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minister to do so. Mr Fatchett
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him. President Habibie is
under pressure from Western
governments for movement

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by Mr Suharto in the mid-
1970s.

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forms must be Otl
given concrete ,

Form soon. He

His visit, and
his role as a per¬
sonal envoy of the Prime
Minister, underlines the grow¬
ing political weight of a man
who was little known outside
Westminster before he became
Minister. Many diplomats
now see him as the most
effective and professional min¬
ister of state in the Foreign
Office, with his stature en¬
hanced as Robin Cook and
Tony Lloyd have floundered in
the Sandline affair.

Mr Fatchett, responsible
mainly for British policy in the
Middle East has "been closely
involved in the Prime Minis¬
ter’s visit to the region. He has
also earned a reputation as a
tough, hard-working minister
who has managed to steer
British policy through some of
the most notoriously treacher¬
ous diplomatic shoals without
falling foul of any of the
governments in the region.

Arabs and Israelis are
equally impressed. “He is
perceived as someone who is a
professional, who knows the
region well and who is able to
express criticism in a way that
we can accept" one London-
based diplomat said.

Mr Fatchett, 52, has made a
number of speeches that have
critidsesd Israeli policy on the
peace process without provok¬
ing anger in Jerusalem. One

CHe is.
head and
shoulders
above the
others
here 9

Israeli source said the minis¬
ter was a good speaker, and
Iraelis appreciated anyone
who could stand up for his
point of view.

Mr Hatchett's background
would not suggest a smooth
diplomatic manner. He made
his name as a leftwinger, a
lecturer who was a keen critic
of American policy in Central
America and an admirer of
Arthur ScargilL He joined the
Labour Party in 1964. became
active in Yorkshire 1 politics'
and went on to be an outspo¬
ken critic of the Thatcher
Government. He was a Lab¬
our whip in 1986 and in 1987
became assistant campaign
co-ordinator
'-under Bryan

2 IS. " " Gould in 1987,

playing a big role
and in the campaign

- against the poll

derS tax, in student

, arid university ifr-1

3 tne sues arid in mat¬

ters of - 'youth' ,
2TS . employment ’

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3 j pointment, - idetri-

ogy has played.\
little part ia-WSv
job. “He is universally highly
regarded and popular," 1 Tme -
Bntish diplomat said yester- -
day. "He made his name first',
over Iraq, and then ova- the \
Middle East He is competent,
personable and generally.
liked." It is a sentiment echoedv
by British diplomats overseas, ,
although they are wary j 0fv
speaking on the record incase
any implied comparison isr-i
drawn with Mr Cook. 4l;

But others in the Foreign ;j
Office were less inhibited. “He.:
is head and shoulders above :’
all the other ministers henSrji
He’ll go a long way."

Cook: floundered o«r-> :

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Danes on
course to

support

wider

Europe

From Charles Breaker

IN COPENHAGEN

DANISH voters ap¬
peared likely to give dear
endorsement to the treaty
of Amsterdam in yester¬
day’s referendum, ensur¬
ing that the EU’s
successor to Maastricht is
not blocked by a new
bout of Scandinavian
doubt, according to early
estimates.

As polling stations
closed,.Danish television
exit polls suggested that
56.9 per cent had voted
for and 43.1 per cent
against

The expected “Ja~ in
the counhys third EU
referendum in six years
was a big relief to the
centre-left Government of
Poul Nynip Rasmussen,
the mainstream opposi¬
tion and the country’s
business establishment

All had fought to con¬
vince their Eurosceptic
countrymen that a “Nej"
to Amsterdam would ex¬
ile Denmark to the
fringes of European pow¬
er and possibly force it to
leave the EU.

The no campaign,
which hailed mainly
from the farther reaches
of the Left and the Right
had marshalled a strong
campaign in recent days
on the theme of saving
Denmark's sovereignty
and keeping control over
its borders.

The Amsterdam treaty,
though regarded as weak
by most other EU states,
lays the ground for en¬
larging the Union to the
East and centralising
control of frontiers and
immigration.

Britain and Ireland
opted out from the border
arrangement.

D Driving ban: EU driv¬
ers will no longer be able
to drive anywhere in the
EU if they are banned
from taking the road in
one member state coun¬
try. ministers agreed in
Brussels yesterday.

Letters, page 25

Yeltsin pledges

SERGEI CHIRIKOV I g£A

tax purge to

save economy

PRESIDENT YELTSIN yes¬
terday srrove to restore confi¬
dence in the struggling
Russian economy after Wed¬
nesdays move by rhe central
bank to triple interest rates to
150 per cent amid plummeting
stock prices and growing
pressure on the rouble.

Mr Yeltsin promised tough
measures against tax evaders,
including the seizure of prop¬
erty. and repeated govern¬
ment assurances that there
wou/d be no devaluation.
Market reaction appeared
favourable last night, giving
the Government vital breath¬
ing space. The rouble
strengthened to b.1490 to the
dollar from 6.1750 on Wednes¬
day. and leading Russian
shares rose after falling nearly
II per cent the previous day.

The Pres idem, speaking
after meeting Sergei Kiriyen-
ko, the Prime Minister. Sergei
Dubinin, the central bank
chairman, Mikhail Zadornov,
the finance Minister, and
Valentin Yumashev. the
Kremlin Chief of Staff, ex¬
pressed confidence that Russia
would weather the crisis. He
said: "[The| financial markets
will not collapse. The central
bank and Finance Ministry
have sufficient reserves to
control the situation.”

The crisis has dealt a severe
blow to Mr Kiriyenko’s new
Government, appointed with
the explicit aim of providing a
new economic dynamism.

Moscow has blamed exter-

Robin Lodge

reports from

Moscow on

efforts to restore

confidence

nal factors for the latest crisis,
pointing to a knock-on effect
from the collapse of Asian
markets and foreign specula¬
tion against the rouble. But
economists say much of the
crisis is of Russia's own mak¬
ing. with investors alarmed
about the Government's con¬
tinuing inability to collect
taxes. Confidence was under¬
mined further by thousands of
striking coalminers this
month, who blocked railway
lines across the country to
stifle supplies to other
industrial sectors.

All those factors have com¬
bined to erode Russia's eco¬
nomic credibility and it will
take more than statements to
restore it. Christopher Gran¬
ville. of Fleming UCB, the
Russian affiliate of the British
bank Fleming, said: “Nothing
the authorities say will make
any difference at this stage.
They will be judged only by
their actions."

He added, however, that the
decision to defend the rouble
“has to be right” and pointed

to the stabilisation of the
currency over the past three
years as the main economic
policy success.

Accordingly, the decision to
raise interest rates to defend
the rouble was the only viable
option and in the short to
medium term should have
negligible adverse effects on
the economy or the popula¬
tion. given the absence of
consumer or industrial credit.
In the longer term, the Gov¬
ernment, struggling with a
huge budget deficit, can ill
afford to set itself even higher
rates to pay off its debts and
will be forced to make swinge¬
ing public spending cuts.

“But you worry about the
end when you get there. The
losses are high, but this is the
lesser evil when the main task
is to maintain credibility," Mr
Granville said.

Much will depend on the
attitude taken by the Interna¬
tional Monetary Fund. Michel
Camdessus, the IMF chair¬
man. gave a broad hint of his
support yesterday when he
said that the release of the
latest $670 million (£410 mil¬
lion) instalment of the IMPs
$92 billion loan to Moscow,
combined with the measures
taken by the Russian authori¬
ties. should be enough to see
the country through the crisis.

But the Russians have made
clear that they would welcome
additional support Oleg Vya-
gin. the Deputy finance Min¬
ister. said yesterday that the

Garden
dug up
in French
murder

inquiry

Bv Our Foreign Staff

President Yeltsin, who had tough decisions on the economy to make yesterday,
with Seymoor Rehauhele, the Lesotho Ambassador, at a Kremlin ceremony

release of the latest instalment
would not in itself be enough,
and suggested that an IMF
stabilisation plan would ease
the situation quickly. “If we
are talking about any support.

it must be on a different scale."
he said, adding that a further
credit would not necessarily be
spent, but held to provide a
psychological boost to the
economy. At the same time, he

added, “there are quite realis¬
tic chances to save the situa¬
tion without extra help”

Leading article, page 25
Janet Bush, page 29

Gays attack fudged law rehabilitating victims of Nazis

From Roger Boyes

IN BONN

GERMAN homosexuals and desert¬
ers sentenced in Nazi courts were
yesterday exonerated by a large
parliamentary majority, but gay
organisations said die move fell short
of the necessary remorse.

Under the Bill, passed into law
yesterday, convictions "imposed try
Nazi courts for political, military,
racist, religious or philosophical
reasons after January 30. 1933. that
go against the basic precepts of

justice will be lifted". The vagueness
of the phrasing was deliberate, to
camouflage long-standing differ¬
ences in parliament about the status
of wartime deserters.

Conservative politicians argued
that many wartime deserters were
common criminals and that they
sometimes acted treacherously by
leaving their fellow soldiers vulnera¬
ble. Social Democrats and Greens,
however, say that the mere act of
desertion, which carried the penalty
of death, was heroic.

Yesterday's law tries to fudge the

problem by not stating precisely
which groups are to be rehabilitated,
offending deserters and homosex¬
uals. “It is a slap in the face,” said
Gunter Dworek. of the German
Association of Gays.

Volker Beck, a Green and the only
self-confessed homosexual deputy in
parliament, agreed. Under the terms
of the law, he said, only those gays
who ended up in concentration
camps are morally rehabilitated.

Nazi courts sentenced about50.000
homosexuals under legislation intro¬
duced in 1935. Between 10,000 and

15,000 were sent to concentration
camps. During the Second World
War, many homosexuals were sent to
fight on the Eastern front rather than
to the camps. Only about 20 or 30
homosexual concentration-camp vic¬
tims are alive, but Herr Beck believes
there are thousands of other surviv¬
ing convicted homosexuals.

Nobody knows the precise figures,
but between 1945 and 1959 only 14
homosexual Nazi victims claimed
compensation. Gay organisations
are therefore demanding that the law
makes special mention of homosex¬

ual victims. “If the law does not
specify those prosecuted under para¬
graph 175 of the prewar penal code —
under which practising homosexuals
could be jailed for up to ten years —
there can be no real exoneration,"
Herr Dworek said.

The law is a blanket pardon for
about 500.000 victims and is sup¬
posed to satisfy many other groups of
victims, including Jehovah’s Wit¬
nesses and those who were forced
into sterilisation. The law does not,
however, entitle the victims to finan¬
cial recompense.

TWO brothers suspected of
raping their 25-year-old sister
and then murdering the ba¬
bies they fathered are being
questioned by police in north¬
ern France, officials said
yesterday.

About 60 police officers
and forensic scientists have
been digging up the family's
back garden in the village of
lUies, ear Lille, since Mon¬
day. but no bodies hare been
found. The potior said they
were looking for the remains
of up to six babies.

For the fourth day in suc¬
cession, mechanical diggers
raked the grounds of the
Lefranc family home, a bleak
two-storey building believed
to have been the scene for
years of rape, incest, brutality
and drunkenness by the fam¬
ily of six.

Neighbours hare said they
saw Patricia Lefranc preg¬
nant several times in recent
years, but never saw any
babies, be search began after
she accused her two older
brothers. 31 and 35. of raping
her and killing and burying
the newborn babies.

A judicial source said state¬
ments indicated that between
four and six babies had been
born as a result of the rapes
and then been disposed of.
The source said the dead
babies appeared to have been
thrown into a garden
cesspool.

Tbe three hare been in
police custody since March,
.when they were accused of
beating their father. Paul
Lefranc. 67. after a doctor
alerted tbe authorities to
signs of abuse.

Their mother. Lurie, and
her youngest son were ques¬
tioned by the police about the
rape and murder allegations
this week. Both had support¬
ed Patricia Lefranc's stated
merits, police said.

M Lefranc has been sent to
an old people's home.

□ Paris: Peggy Bouchet 24.
of France, believed to be the
first woman to try to row
single-handed across the At¬
lantic, capsized yesterday off
the French Caribbean island
of Guadeloupe, only two days
away from success after 79
days at sea. (AFP)

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guard border
for Albania

By Michael Evans, defence correspondent

NATO foreign ministers
warned President Milosevic,
the Yugoslav leader, yesterday
that the alliance was ready to
send troops to Albania and the
Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia to prevent the
conflict in the Serbian prov¬
ince of Kosovo from spilling
over the borders.

Meeting in Luxembourg,
the foreign ministers said that
“if necessary" the alliance
would deploy troops to guard
the borders with Kosova In
. the meantime, there are to be
two large military exercises in
the summer in Albania and
the Former Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia. The exercises
will involve troops and fighter
aircraft. British forces are
expected to be included.

In a statement, the Nato
ministers called for detailed
plans to be drawn up for
preventive deployments to
help the two countries to
secure their borders and to
stop the crisis in Kosovo
expanding into a wider
conflict

A preliminary study by
Nato military planners this
month concluded that it would
take between 7,000 and 20,000
troops to prevent the flow of
arms from Albania to the
ethnic Albanian population of
Kosovo which is suffering
repressive action by Yugoslav
military and police units.

Nato officials acknowledged
that if the alliance decided to
send a large force to secure the
borders, it could be accused of
helping President Milosevic. It
would be in his interests if

cross-border arms smuggling
to the Albanian resistance in
Kosovo was stopped.

However, the Albanian
Government has appealed for
help from Nato and the for¬
eign ministers registered their
determination to prevent
another Bosnia from erupting
in the region.

The ministers warned Mr
Milosevic that the alliance
was even ready to consider
direct intervention in Kosovo.
The foreign ministers said that
Mr Milosevic had a “special
responsibility” to achieve a
political solution with Kos¬
ovo’s ethnic Albanians, but
added that that should lead to
Kosovo having “enhanced pol¬
itical status”, not indepen¬
dence. Nato agrees that the
political integrity of the Yugo¬
slav federal republic should be
preserved.

Madeleine Albright the US

Albright: spillover threat
from Kosovo is real

Secretary of State, said that
contingency planning by Nato
was essential. She said the
threat of cross-border actions
from Kosovo to Albania was
real, providing “another re¬
minder that it is Milosevic that
is internationalising this
conflict”.

A number of other mea¬
sures were agreed by the min¬
isters, including the deploy¬
ment of a naval force to the
Albanian port of Dunes early
next month and a five-roan
Nato “cell” is to be established
in Tirana, the Albanian
capital.

The ministers also agreed
that the 800 United Nations
force based in Macedonia
should be increased to its
original size of 1.050. They
said a continued military pres¬
ence would be necessary after
the expiry of the UN mandate
on August 31 and Nato troops
could be involved.

Despite the military mea¬
sures. Nato hopes that diplo¬
matic and political pressure
on the Yugoslav authorities
and ethnic Albanian leaders in
Kosovo will produce a negoti¬
ated end to the crisis. Presi¬
dent Clinton is scheduled to
meet Ibrahim Rugova, the
province's ethnic Albanian
leader, in Washington today.
□ Camp chief hckL Milojica
Kos. a former commander at
the infamous Omarska prison
camp in Bosnia, has been
detained by Nato-led stabil¬
isation force troops, an official
of the International Criminal
Tribunal for Former Yugosla¬
via said yesterday.

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Lebanon ambush kills two Israeli soldiers

From Christopher Walker

IN JERUSALEM

THE guerrilla war in southern Leba¬
non crept closer to Israel’s vulnerable
northern border when two Israeli
soldiers were killed and two wounded
in an ambush 50 yards from the
frontier. The dead soldiers, of the crack
Golani Brigade, were both 20.

The Iranian-backed Hezbollah
quickly claimed responsibility for the
remote-controlled bomb. The attack
late on Wednesday night came after

the most intense week of fighting in
Lebanon for months in which four
Israeli-allied Lebanese militiamen and
at least five Hezbollah fighters were
killed.

Before the ambush a Lebanese
shepherd. 16, was killed and a
Lebanese civilian was wounded in
seperate explosions in fields near the
market town of Nabatiyeh — attacks
blamed locally on Israeli agents.

Israeli authorities were deeply wor¬
ried by the bomb, which indicated col¬
laboration by south Lebanese living

deep in the buffer zone Israel has
maintained since most of its troops
withdrew from Lebanon in 1985. The
blast raised to six the number of
Israelis killed in Lebanon this year.
Another 58 have been wounded.

Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli
Prime Minister, has recently offered to
withdraw from south Lebanon, but
only if the Beirut Government provides
security guarantees against Hezbollah
extending its campaign with cross-
border raids into northern Israel. Both.
Lebanon and Syria have rejected die

offer, on the ground that a 20-year-bld
United Nations resolution calls for an
unconditional withdrawal.

Yesterday, during a visit to China,
Mr Netanyahu said dial the offer was
still there, adding: “Until we succeed in
implementing it we will have to
absorb these tragedies
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Christian committee, between the Vati¬
can and the Sunni Islamic institute. AJ-
Azhar, was set up here after four years
of negotiation. The Pope will receive a
delegation from Al-Azhar today. (AFP)

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the CompuServe online ser¬
vice was convicted yesterday
of helping to spread pornogra¬
phy through the Internet (Rog¬
er Boyes writes). Felix Somm,
a Swiss citizen, was given a
two-year suspended jail sen¬
tence for his complicity in
13 cases.

Even on the Internet there
can be no law-free zones, the
Munich court ruled. Somm
had said the German subsid¬
iary did not have its own
server and he was unable to
filter out the pornography.

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law, access providers are now
not generally held liable for
Internet material, but must try
to block banned material.

Retrial rejected

Stockholm: Sweden's Su¬
preme Court said new evi¬
dence was not sufficient to
retry Christer Pettersson, 51,
convicted and then cleared of
killing Olof Palme, the Prime
Minister, in 1986. (Reuters}

Burma gesture

Rangoon: Burma's National
League for Democracy, led by
Aung San Suu Kyi. met for
two days to mark its 1990 poll
landslide — the first time the
military junta has allowed it to
do so. {'Reuters!

Eritrea war alert

Asmara: Thousands of veter¬
ans of Eritrea’s 30-year war
for independence from Ethio¬
pia boarded lorries to head
for disputed border areas as
war rhetoric between the two
countries intensified. (AP)

Mugabe protest

Harare: One thousand Zim¬
babwean students demon¬
strated against corruption in
President Mugabe’s Govern¬
ment, urging him to resign
as President Suharto did in
Indonesia last week. (AFP)

Sterility fears

Tokyo: A government study
has found very low sperm
activity in young Japanese
men, compounding fears that
industrial pollution may be
affecting male fertility. Japan
has a declining birthrate. (AP)

Tomb revealed

Cairo: Archaeologists have
discovered a New Kingdom
tomb in the Dahshur necropo¬
lis. where only Ancient Em¬
pire combs had been found, it
dates from TutankhomunS
14th-century BC reign. (AFP)

Cape buffalo and call Up to half of those trapped in..'
boiling mud in Mamili National Park are to beshot

Underground fires
cook buffalo alive

From Sam Kilby in Johannesburg

SCORES of buffalo trapped in many buffafo are stranded in
boiling mud caused by under- the boiling mud in the wetland
ground fires set by hungry of Mamili," Mr Malima told
tribesmen in Namibia are to The Namibian newspaper
be shot by park wardens to yesterday. He said the boilmg
save them from further agony, of the buffalo had provided a
Philemon Malima. Minister bonanza for prides of lion that
for the Environment and had wandered into the park
Tourism, said 70 buffalo with and were feeding on the beasts
burnt hooves are to be shot as they writhed in the scalding -
over the next few days in mud.
mercy killings that could Mr Malima described ti»
reach 150. half the Mamili loss of the buffalo as a national
National Park's buffalo popu- disaster and said that djiefe
lation. Hunters started the had been told to track down
underground fires in an effort those who set the fires; so that
to trap the animals for meat they did not “destroy- the
Mr Malima said that the heritage of the Caprivi". 1 _
buffalo, held in boiling mud The fires have be^n so
by burning seams of coal and severe that all the wetlands of
peat under the Caprivi Strip in the Mamili Park have been
nonheast Namibia, had often turned into an inferno of
fallen pr^ to the local people, burning reeds while peal and
who had been given meat coal burning beneath ttesurr
from culled animals by park face has caused the earth to
wardens Many of the calves boil. Park wardens are sur-
died on the spot because they prised that few animals other
rould not move after their than the buffalo had been
hooves and other body parts trapped in the boiling puddles,
»n the mud although they said tMsmay be
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IN WASHINGTON

PRESIDENT Clinton faced a
critical setback to his defence
last night when court docu¬
ments revealed ihar secret
grand jury evidence had per¬
suaded a federal judge to fores
two top White House aides to
testify about his relationship
with Monica Lewinsky.

In a ruling last month.
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claim of executive privilege for
testimony given by Bruce
Lindsey, the deputy White
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BlumenthaJ. the political strat¬
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the first time that the judge
made her decision based on a
private presentation of evi¬
dence by Kenneth Starr, the
independent prosecutor. It is
uncertain whether the White
House will appeal.

Mr Starr demonstrated that
the two aides alone could
provide key information about
the alleged 18-month affair
with Ms Lewinsky, and con¬
vinced die judge that their
testimony was important
enough to outweigh Mr Clin¬
ton's claims of executive and
attorney-client privilege on
their behalf. The ruling goes to
the heart of allegations that
the President had a sexual re¬
lationship with Ms Lewinsky
when she was 21 and that he
later asked her to He about it
Its publication came amid
reports that Mr Clinton had
rebuffed five requests to
testify.

“If there were instructions

lying about an affair

from the President *to obstruct
justice or efforts to suborn per¬
jury. such actions likely took
the form of conversations in¬
volving the President's closest
advisers, inefuding Lindsey
and Blumenihol." wrote Judge
Johnson. “If the President
disclosed to a senior adviser
that he committed perjury,
suborned perjury or obstruct¬
ed justice, such a disclosure is
unlikely to be recorded on
paper, but it also would consti¬
tute some of the most relevant
and important evidence to the
grand jury investigation."

Viewed in Washington as a
significant defeat for the Presi¬
dent, the ruling exactly fol¬
lowed a precedent set by the
Supreme Court in ordering
President Nixon to surrender
the Watergate tapes in 1974.
The judge repearedly referred
to the Watergate ruling and. at
one point, noted “the factual
similarities between the Nixon
cases and the case at hand".

Homs are locked as
Pamplona goes West

From Giles Whittell in los angeles

A NEVADA town that is
planning to stage a version of
the Pamplona bull run has hit
a wall of opposition from
animal rights activists who
say the scheme is “an idea
from the Dark Ages".

In honour of Hemingway, a
company called Running of
the Bulls America Inc has won
the backing of Mesquite city
council to charge aU-comers
$50 (£30) for the privilege of
being chased down the main
street by a herd of fine
southwestern steers.

This week the Humane
Society of America called the
plan a threat to people as well
as animals and "an unprece¬
dented ad of bad judgment".
Undaunted, the Arizona busi¬

nessman behind the plan in¬
tends to unleash his bulls on
July II.

They will not be prodded.
Phil Imraordino assured The
Tjmes, but they will be “point¬
ed in the right direction" by a
bulldozer.

Unlike Pamplona, in north¬
ern Spain. Mesquite has no
narrow streets. It plans to ban
the unfit and the drunk from
running with the bulls, and
will provide escape routes
every 100ft

While the chosen animals
are capable of bursts of up to
40mph. they will not be
goaded into action. “There’s a
good chance these bulls won’t
move," said Mr Immordino.
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emerged in the legal papers,
including that Mr Undsey. for
decades the Clintons* chief
troubleshooter, has been de¬
briefing witnesses and their
lawyers alter they testify in the
Lewinsky case. This raised the
question of whether such in¬
terviews were part of a
strategy to influence the inves¬
tigation improperly, a daim
denied by the While House.

Judge Johnson also ruled
that Mrs Hinton’s conversa¬
tions with the two aides could
be covered by executive privi¬
lege, the first time a First Lady
has been defined as a presi¬
dential assistant.

In an apparent admission in
an article in the California
Lawyer, which he later denied.
William Ginsburg, the
Lewinsky lawyer, seemed to
admit that a sexual relation¬
ship had taken place between
the President and his client

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Speaker’s corner Newt Gingrich, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, in a cave at Petra, Jordan, yesterday on his Middle East tour

‘Ogling’ firemen kindle anger of model agency

From tunku Varadaramn
IN NEW YORK

THE Elite Model Agency, New York’s
must fertile source nf beauty, has
lodged a complaint with the fire
department, accusing firemen of
“ogling" and “harassment" after offi¬
cers made seven safety inspections in

six weeks at a flat that houses ten
young models. The Qat — a central
pied-a-terre for visiting foreign models
— was rented in March.

Following standard practice, the
agency’s management asked the fire
department to conduct a routine safety
inspection. That, allegedly, was when
the trouble began.

The firemen paid their first visit last
month and have relumed repeaiedly
since then. The company that owns the
flat said: “Once they found that 12-
year-old and 16-year-old Elite models
were living in the building, they started
showing up. saying that they wanted to
do an inspection.

“But how many times does it need to

be inspected? We’ve really been
harassed."

Elite, which has set up a video
camera to tape the inspections now
contends that the safety visits are a
pretext to ogle the girls, and has
suggested that this could constitute
“stalking". But the fire department is
standing by its men.

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Give me a break from this coffee grind, please

MAN

ON TOP

JOE JOSEPH

I t was while waiting for the
man in my local comer store
to hand-roast my coffee beans
(picked from the northeastern
terraces only of an arabica planta¬
tion in western Colombia) over a
wood lire (insist on French oak
saplings for best results), that I got
lo wondering if some lunatics
haven't begun taking coffee¬
drinking a bit too seriously.

Apparently there are even cer¬
tain people who insist that Lhe oak
saplings mustn't be more than two
years old — even though this
makes no known difference to the
final taste of the brewed coffee (so
long as the circumference of the
sapling doesn't exceed 2xPi* di¬
vided by the price of March coffee
futures in Siko Paulo). But my
hunch is that coffee is about to get
even more complicated.

Cafes in Italy and France have
been quietly serving wonderful
coffee for years, only rarely giving
their customers die impression

that this was an activity which — if
only there were more justice in the
world — would qualify for some
kind of Nobel science prize. Now.
suddenly, coffee is hot again in
London. Coffee bars haven't been
this hoi since before Cliff Richard
was a virgin. They are so hot that
Starbucks, a chain of coffee bars
that has been reinventing coffee¬
drinking for Americans over the
past few years and which has L500
sites across the United States, is
about lo unleash itself on Britain.

This is probably a good thing.
But when I tell you that “I just
can’t wait to drink a cup of
Starbucks coffee". I mean that
literally. I can't wait because 1
have several things I must do
before the year is out and I'm not
sure that will leave enough time to
stop off at Starbucks. It can take
so long. Starbucks has an incredi¬
ble choice of coffee-related drinks
(Pm using ^incredible" here riot ip •
the sense of “mouth-watering",

but as in "possibly longer even
than the 8ible") and the staff will
happily run through them ail
before taking your order. Maybe
they do this because they are
proud of the product Or maybe
it's because they belong to a secret
doomsday sect which believes that
a meteor will devastate the Earth
if customers aren’t made aware of
all available permutations com¬
prising hot water, milk and
ground coffee beans.

I have stopped off at a
Starbucks only once, in Califor¬
nia. on the way back to my hotel
after having my hair cut I asked
the man or the counter for a coffee.

— What typef

— Urn .. . caffe latte, please.

— Tall or a double tall?

— Er...

~ Or a latte macchiaio? That’s
when we pour the milk in first
and then the espresso.

— How does the caffe latte come,
then?

— That's where we pour the
espresso in first.

— I'm not in the mood for a lot of
frothy milk, like in a cappuccino.

— Then maybe you want espresso
macchiatof

— No. 1 still want a big coffee, but
not drowned in milk, or froth.

— I tell you what, HI make you a
tall double latte macchiato. If
you don’t like that. I’ll fix you
something else.

— Fine.

— Now, milk. Do you want half ¬
fat, non-fat. halfand-half? Do
you want decaff? With vanilla?
What about cinnamon? White
sugar? Raw sugar? Sweet 'n Low?

The server couldn't have been
more helpful, but by the time I'd
finished ordering my coffee the
seasons had changed and 1 had to
run back to the barber's because
my hair needed cutting all over
again. So, walking out past a
lengthening queue. I took my
coffee with me. If you ever need to

do this you should know that
coffee now has wings, just like
birds and aeroplanes. In coffee-
talk. "with wings" means "to take
away" (being one word shorter,
using this phrase helps you
lo daw back some of the weeks
previously lost negotiating
your way around the macdu-
ato/latte/double tall/es¬
presso/wet (ie, with extra steamed
milk)/mocha/ skinny (ie with
slummed m3k)/no fun (ie, decaff
etnalecQ/cappuccino/vanina or¬
dering-slalom.

Maybe we customers could
fight hack at the cash till- "How
much did you say it was? £1.50?
How do you want that— a pound
coin, two 20p pieces and a lOp?
Three 50p pieces? Or two 50p
pieces and five lOp coins? Wait a
second. I think 1 can do you one
SOp. three 20p pieces, three (Op
pieces and two fivepenny coins.
Now do you want dean coins?
Grubby coins? Any particuiar

year you have your heart set onT

The Seattle Coffee Company,
Coffee Republic and the other
American pretenders that have set
up here can't hold a candle to
Starbucks’s matrix of espresso
options. That’s why, when ] read
this week that Or Janies Lane, of
Duke University in North Caroli¬
na. had conducted research show¬
ing that a few extra cups of coffee
each day can raise blood pressure
enough to increase a person's risk
of developing heart disease, it
came as no surprise. Standing
there, seething, in those American
coffee queues has that same effect
on me. too.

Putting it another way. I'm
pleased Tony Blair has made such
headway on Ireland. 1 was plan¬
ning on going there myself later
this year to knock a few heads
together, but now I don't think III
be able to get away: I'm going to
be much too busy trying to get a
cup of coffee.

A spy still out in the cold

O nce upon a time,
Michael Bettaney
goose-stepped
around the quad¬
rangle of an Oxford college
and played recordings of Hit¬
ler’s speeches so loudly that
other undergraduates could
not srndy. Today he plods
dejectedly through a dingy
council estate followed by jeer¬
ing children. They chorus
"Russian spy” and he pretends
not to notice. Soon they will
start throwing stones.

There was always a tragic
inevitability about the bun¬
gling traitor's fate: he had lost
the plot long before being
recruited by the Security Ser¬
vice. Twenty-five years ago
those of us who were Oxford
contemporaries of this eccen¬
tric, misguided ideologue saw
that he was bom to be isolated
and unhappy in a world he
never really understood.

• He compensated for his
painful shyness by embracing
Car-right politics and. briefly.
cultivating a toothbrush
moustache. While we grew
our hair and talked of peace
and love, Bettaney dressed like
a bank manager and dreamt
of being a stormtrooper.

Freed after serving 14 years
in prison for trying to pass
secrets to the KGB. Bettaney,
now 48, is a pale shadow of his
former self. The insolent smile
and strutting arrogance he
displayed as an undergradu¬
ate have gone.

When we meet again he has
no recollection of our time at
Pembroke College: "I cannot
say you look even vaguely
familiar. Those years are a bit
of a blank, so much has
happened since... sorry.”

Physically. Bettaney has
changed out of all recognition.
His puppy fat has gone and
his eyes now mirror an inner
turmoil — the expression is
wary and wounded: the star
turn at the English tutorial has
become a hunted animal. He
speaks of his fear that he could
be returned to jail if he speaks
to the press. “I am frightened
of infringing my parole condi¬
tions — I did 14 years of a 23-
year sentence. There are
people waiting to put me back
inside if I say too much."

Bettaney no longer sees
himself as a security risk. The
former raiddle-ranldng MI5
officer insists that his "profes¬
sional knowledge of the
Security Service is out of date

Bill Frost on

an eccentric,
misguided
ideologue who
became a
bungling
traitor

and useless". AH he wants now
is the opportunity to “chill out
and get used to freedom — i
just want a quiet life". He
doubts that any employer
would offer him a job and is.
for now. content to be idle.

"Let's be realistic, nothing is
coming my way after a convic¬
tion for spying. Employers
need to trust their staff and my
crime was the ultimate breach
of faith.” he says.

Since his release earlier this
month, he has lived with his
fiancte. Marion Johnstone, at
Ware, in Hertfordshire. The
relationship grew after she
wrote to him in jail when both
were still members of the Com¬
munist Party of Great Britain.
While she works, he shops,
reads or works in the garden
behind their council house. In
the evening he walks to die end
of the road to meet her.

He cannot or will not
explain his political swing
from fascism to communism.
“It is all so long ago—we were
so young and full of ideals."

Arhough he undoubtedly
still has information that
could be damaging to MI5. the
agency did not object to his
early release. It was among
several groups consulted by
the Parole Board, which then
recommended to Jack Straw,
the Home Secretary, that he be
freed on licence. Should he say
anything of his time with the
service, he would have to serve
the rest of his term.

“When my parole restric¬
tions expire in January I might
be able to tell a little of my
stoiy. Until then I must re¬
main silent" he says.

And what an extraordinary
story Bettaney has to tell, of
treachery and official incom¬
petence punctuated with high
farce. Hew a young man with
a fondness for drink and far-
right politics could have been
considered suitable for the
Security Service — Bettaney

was almost certainly selected
as a potential MI5 officer by
his late English tutor while in
the florid midst of his fascist
period — is inexplicable.

Joining the Security Service
in 1975, Bettaney was posted to
Northern Ireland — perhaps
foolishly, given that he was a
Roman Catholic and doubted
his suitabil ity for the job. Soon
after his arrival he began
drinking heavily. His parents
died within a short time of
each other and the intelligence
officer's behaviour became
ever more erratic — verbal
abuse of colleagues and arrest
for public drunkenness. Dur¬
ing this period, he was drink¬
ing almost a bottle of spirits a
day. His superiors failed to
notice his vitriolic outbursts
and by 1982—a year before his
arrest by Special Branch — he
was transferred to Mb's K
branch, responsible for moni¬
toring the KGB’S hierarchy in
Britain just at a time when his
own politics were lurching
further to the militant left. A
bungling spy was bom.

JOHNO-RBLLY

K nowing the names
and habits of senior
Soviet agents, Betta¬
ney approached Ar¬
kady Gouk. the KGB station
head in London. But his over¬
tures were spumed; the Rus¬
sians thought he.was a plant
Bettaney had photographed
and copied highly classified
information about Irish terror¬
ist groups and East European
espionage activities. His
motives were “ideological", he
insisted. His treachery might
have gone undetected but for
Oleg Gordievsky, the former
KGB double agent who tipped
off M16 that die traitor was
offering information to Mos¬
cow — shoving secret docu¬
ments through the letterbox at
Gout's home.

Passing sentence on Bet¬
taney after his Old Bailey trial
— most of which was held in
camera — the then Lord Chief
Justice. Lord Lane, said: "You
would have given every pos¬
sible help to the Russians, ro
the detriment of this country.
You must be punished
severely to mark the abhor¬
rence of the crime.”

During his jail term,
Bettaney was kept in segrega¬
tion units, first at Coldingley.
in Surrey, then at Swaleside,
in Kent. “My time in prison
was spent in conditions that

Why not let the
child benefit?

Valerie Grove suggests a new
way to allocate the allowance

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Haunted spook: “My crime was the ultimate breach of faith," says Michael Bettaney

T he Blairs have been
rumbled for collecting
their child benefit — or
having it delivered, the mid¬
dle-class way. into Cherie’s
bank account. 1 find this
mildly hilarious.

in her book The Sceptical
Feminist, the philosopher Ja¬
net Raddiffe Richards asked
the crucial question: of what
value are children? People
may want diem, but does the
State? An automatic benefit
just for having children, irres¬
pective of whether the children
were in need, was unjusti¬
fiable, she concluded.

Universal child benefit has
never been universally satis¬
factory —not enough to lift the
poor out of poverty, a source of
guilt and gratification to die
well-off. ignored by a pious
few — but whenever meat¬
testing has been suggested, it
has been “too expensive, too
complicated" to administer.

I live opposite the hideous
Eleanor Raihbone House,
built in 1969. and am daily
aware that it was Eleanor,
unmarried and childless, who
fought doughtily in the 1930s
to introduce family allow¬
ances. Having worked in the
Liverpool slums, she wanted
to relieve the mothers' care¬
worn and sunless lives. By
1945. she had achieved her
aim, but was dismayed that
the allowance was only five
shillings, and not payable for
the first child-

Today the first child, rightly
assumed to be the life-chang¬
ing one for parents, receives
£11.45 and die others E930
each. It was in the 1970s that
the allowance was made pay¬
able directly to mothers, to
stop fathers squandering it in

the pub. I have seen many
mothers exchange it in the
sub-post office for cigarettes:
that’s their choice.

Frank Field asked in The
Times the other day, how do
you spend your child benefir?
He said he had heard (he
himself is childless) that some
spend it on champagne. In¬
stead of abolition or means-
testing. he “dared" to propose,
a third way: making benefit
more generous, but taxing iL

But there is a fourth way.
one that would prevent tax¬
ation: bypass the parent and
make sure the beneficiary is
the child. Vouchers have often
been suggested — exchanger-
able for such things as nap¬
pies. shoes, nourishing food.
My own way is to salt away
these small but significant
sums each week until the child
finishes school. I opened Nat¬
ional Savings accounts for
each child at birth, unbreach-
able until they are 18. By then
each account (interest now 6
per cent) will contain, with top-
ups, about £15.000. which will
help them through the blessed
gap year and the following
three years without student
loans or total indigence.

While the State may not want
to encourage procreation, it
does want to encourage respon¬
sibility and providence, and
positively insists that each child
aims for tertiary education,
which not every parent can
afford. If the benefit became an
investment on each child’s be¬
half, every 18-year-old would
have the means to start, and no
parent could whinge about tui¬
tion fees while quaffing cham¬
pagne and IS-year-olds would
find the playing field would be
more level.

were strange, in conditions of
isolation. I managed to sur¬
vive, but only with the help of
my friends and Marion."

His prison now is a drab
council house, and Bettaney is
still in isolation of a sort. His
days are spent alone — too
much time on his hands,
waiting for his fiancee to
return home.

Could he revisit Oxford,
exorcise some of the ghosts
that haunted him then and

continue to plague him today?
“No. h is ail too fresh and my
betrayal of trust will not be
easily forgotten. The only
place I plan to visit is the
labour exchange. I need to
work, to have something to
do.” Marion Johnstone takes
his hand and they walk to the
front door. "I am so sorry I
cannot remember you. Every¬
thing is so very vague in my
mind.” he says before dosing
his front door on the world.

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THE CHIMES

CHANGING TIMES

Decency at
work - but

who pays?

Blair can buck the unions, not
the markets, says John Lloyd

“ /~\ nee we grew togeth-

I 1 er." John Sweeney
told the leaders of
capitalism gathered at the
annual World Economic fi>
rum at Davos last year, “now
we are growing apart."

The head of the American
trade union movement,
known for his strong attach¬
ment to the free-market sys:
tern, appeared to be signalling
a vast disillusionment — even
an end to the historical bar¬
gain of moderate trade union¬
ism. Thai bargain no longer
delivered; American trade
union members were, in many
cases, getting less in real terms
than their parents. Labour
and capital were growing
apart

The situation could not be
more different from new Lab¬
our Britain this month. In two
separate initiatives, emerging
after a year's marinating in
committee, the Government
seems to have secured the
conditions under which capi¬
tal and labour can grow
together — and on the Govern¬
ment’s terms. The Fairness at
Work White Paper, published
last week, grants labour mod¬
est securities and gives the
unions a chance of organising
more workplaces and being
recognised by law. The Low

Pay Commission's _

recommendation

that the minimum \ mif

rate should be £3.60

an hour (roughly wagi

E7.000 a year) puts a ,

floor under wages, ^ C

and may give \5 j

million workers a

semi-civilised level £ ^

of pay.

The response to
these initiatives has been al¬
most identical. The employers,
in the guise of the Confedera¬
tion of British Industry, have
welcomed them, with a little
polite grimacing. Some em¬
ployers do not think they
should be obliged to recognise
unions for bargaining pur¬
poses under any circumstan¬
ces; but they are prepared to
put up with it if the unions can
persuade 40 per cent of the
workforce to vote. More often
than not they cannot Some
employers think wages should
be entirely flexible, but the
powers-that-be in the CBI
generally pay substantially
more than £3.60 an hour, and
they do not mind putting out of
business a few small com¬
panies who pay for less.

Sir Colin Marshall, the re¬
tiring president of the CBI,
said at his annual dinner on
Wednesday that he thought
the new framework was fme.
as long as it was “supportive"
and would not “serve as a
political pig prod". As he
knew, nothing could be fur¬
ther from the mind of his
guest, the Prime Minister.

This benign outcome has
been overseen by one of the
junior stars of the administra¬
tion. Ian McCartney — a man
who has managed to fuse new
Labour ideals with old Labour
affability. thus avoiding an
explosion of union fury or the
alienation of the capitalists.
His achievement shows skill
and character, but he was
assisted by falling union mem¬
bership; government popular¬
ity: employer coherence; a lack
of political support for the
unions’ maximalist agenda; a
generally solid economy; and
an aversion to industrial ac-

European countries.

As in Northern Ireland, so
in the workplace. Tony Blair
has managed to force the two
sides into growing together.
The inability to achieve either
gave rise to the two night¬
mares of the last Labour
Government, under James
Callaghan; the first haunted
the Prime Minister with its
images of insurrection, the
second ensured that public
service was withheld. “Grow¬
ing together" could be yet
another new Labour slogan.

Yet ar their back, the politi¬
cians and the union officials

A minimum
wage will
be cut or
evaded in

a recession

hear a fell voice. Roger

_ Helmer. of Donis-

thorp Textiles, said
m um in a radio interview

yesterday that “for
Will £3.60 an hour you

can buy a worker
t Or for a day in Moroc-

j ; n co and for a week in

u 111 Indonesia". Textile

ision work ^ ias ^ een ra0v '

ing out of Britain
rapidly of late, as¬
sisted by tip strong pound; the
work that remains would have
been condemned by Labour in
opposition as “rubbish jobs”,
often Asian immigrants paid a
good deal less than £3.60.

New Labour is an anti-
protectionist party, devoted to
the view that free trade enrich¬
es and barriers impoverish. It
opposes those who argue that
the European Union should be
a high-wage fortress; it wants
its walls permeable to precise¬
ly the kind of pressures Mr
Helmer describes.

C an Mr Blair stop the
tide? No. The mini¬
mum wage will bring
some decency, but at the cost
of some jobs. If there is a
recession and a rise in the
unemployed, the pressure to
lower wages will increase.
There will be evasion, which
government will wink at, as do
all governments that run mini¬
mum wage policies.

The Prime Minister has
dealt skilfully with the trade
unions, but their “threat" has
been exaggerated for years.
Mr Blair’s real workplace
challenges are the persistent
productivity gap and the long
tail of unskilled workers, or
would-be workers, who cannot
compete in a market that
favours skill and education. As
the union issue slips away, the
deeper failures of British man¬
agement and education come
into focus, and demand a
response. Come a slowdown,
the Government will suffer if it
cannot get results. That is
much harder than ending the
war of the classes.

John Lloyd is associate editor
of the New Statesman.

THE TIMES FRIDAY MAY 291998

v _ys

tion on the part of union
members.

The British version of the
dass struggle would thus
seem to be over 7 and
probably for some time to
come. Free collective bargain¬
ing will continue, untram¬
melled by grand corporate
deals. Unions will hunt for
members with a little more
prospect of success, and offer
them more advantages to
maintain their support. Com¬
panies will need to take more
care with personnel proce¬
dures. but will retain the vital
ability to cut and increase their
workforces relatively rapidly
in comparison with other

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ESCALATION...

Stately bams of England

“ '■r y ilfagers call for the return
1 / of bam sent to America"
%/ announced The Times on
T Wednesday. The tithe
bam in Bradenstoke Priory was
bought by an American millionaire
but is now languishing in boxes in
California. From halfway round the
world we feel the loss. Yet closer to
home we foil to see. All over Britain
isolated bams are foiling into ruin.

My part of Derbyshire is covered
in beautiful, abandoned stone build¬
ings. isolated from forms or villages.
Stand on any small rise and you will
be-ablettoomnt half a^lpzentotlegng
bams within a mile or two of your
boots. Some .are by the roadside,
others down tracks in fields. Few are

Most of these fine old buildings are falling
down. Their only chance of survival is
as homes - but planners won’t allow it

muse.

Most are foiling down. The rate at
which bams are collapsing has
accelerated in recent years. The
ruination of a building is not a slow
process occurring over generations
and giving time for reflection and
rescue. Dilapidation takes place at a
slow trot, but after the building is
abandoned trot moves to canter.
When the roof falls in. nun speeds to
a gallop. Thieves, vandals (and often
the owner too) begin to plunder what
remains.

Of stone bams this is particularly
true: the stone slate from the roof of a
modest-size bam is now worth be¬
tween E 10,000 and £ 20 . 000 ; add that
to the stone from the walls, and
formers in Derbyshire find their
bams worth more in a lorry than on
their foundations. When planning
authorities insist that a new construc¬
tion should be stonewalled or stone-
roofed fin keeping" with its
environs) they condemn a lonely bam
over the moor, owned by somebody's
cousin who knows someone with a
lorry and will deliver for cash.
Attempts to "list" such edifices are
futile. So the roof has disappeared?
Take the cash and blame it on van¬
dals. No power on Earth can stop a
farmer who no longer wants his bam
from realising his assets.

Few formers have much use for
these buildings. Conservationists
protest that uses can still be found if
the farmer is inventive. They should
do the sums: the needs of modem
equipment, machinery and animal
husbandry point to one of those
hideous steel-framed, hangar-like
“Atcost" constructions which our
planning law seems powerless to
prevent In the present distress of the
farming industry it is politically
impossible to stop the march of these

monstrosities. The Peak Park Author¬
ity, which really does try, offers
grants to find uses for traditional
form buddings, but only in restricted
areas could this ever be affordable.
Working bams of some, brick or
wood are^on their way out t j .- 1

What is the scale of the problem?
No authoritative estimate exists for
the crude total of bams in Britain, let
alone the proportion under threaL
The Yorkshire Dales National Park
tells me that there may be up to 6.000
bams on its patch, of which about a
quarter are in proper use. a quarter
in some use. and more than half are

threatened. The _

park officials expect

the next decade to Cl\ /C

wipe out about a Ck J 1 / 1 /

third of all their V A.l /1

bams. In the Peak

District the prob- ryj

lera must be on a -LW

similar scale. AD ’ _

the way up die Pen-
nines from Derbyshire to the Bor¬
ders, on both sides, stand thousands
of these sad citadels.

Down on the plains tens of thou¬
sands more languish, roofs sagging.
An estimate in Essex suggested that
about half the 140,000 bams to be
found there a century ago still stand
today.

The loss can be stanched. You
cannot preserve in aspic a structure
for which there is no economic use or
prohibit decay by statute. You should
not try: where there is no modem use
for a structure there is something
appropriate about its ruin.

But there is a modem use for
bams; a use for which no subsidy is
required and for which people are
clamouring to pay. The Government
is looking for ways to provide four
million new homes over the next
twenty years. Farmers are ready to
help. We must reverse the planning
presumption against converting iso¬
lated farm buildings for residential
use. There should be a presumption
in favour.

Local government planners will tell
you that there is no presumption
against, but there is. and it is veiy
strong. I have some experience of this

€Matthew

Tarris

—if no longer an interest to declare—
having foiled to get permission to
develop a small bride bam as a
holiday cottage. As an MP in Derby¬
shire for seven years 1 learnt, too, that
unless a bam formed part of an
easting settlement or homestead, my.
farming'constituents were usually
wasting their time applying for

residential use.

All kinds of reasons for refusal are
offered by planning authorities — a
favourite is "access": others include
visual disturbance by the erection of
washing-lines (honestly!), intensifi¬
cation of road use. and the spoiling of

_ a barn’s aspect by

_ the addition of win-

/ / A dows. But the un-

TTnPW deriying reason is

vl/tJl/W/ often undeclared;

■ the provision of new

H'VF dwellings in isolat-

• ed locations is un-

— welcome; it seems to

offend something in
the collective unconscious of the
brotherhood of planners.

Start with a desire to say “no", and
you will never lack for justifications.
Environmental enthusiasts make
common cause with the kneejerk
naysayers which (pace Simon Jen¬
kins) local government breeds. Turn¬
ing a bam into a home falls well
below any bam conservationist's
ideal (What? Lights shining from the
windows at night!); offends against
the transport economist’s case
against the use of cars; and troubles
the parish council, whose chairman
doesn't like the family or see why they
should enrich themselves. They are
joined by a planning officer whose
family coat of arms bears the image
of the thin end of a wedge within a
circle diagonally barred, above the
motto Ne Exemplis Provaberis. The
officer is aware of all the applications
his authority has already turned
down and all the new ones this
precedent might spawn — and haunt¬
ed by the spectre of a legion of
appeals to the Secretary of Stale...

And it’s easiest just to say “no". You
could of course try to find a way
through the thicket minimise the
new windows; bury the overhead

wires; make a new access; but why
get entangled in the first place?
Against that target of four million
new homes, this sort of game seems
hopelessly, time-consumingly
marginal.

William Harvey’s discovery of the
system for the circulation of blood
around the human body would have
dismayed the modem freemasonry of
town and country planners. It is so
small-scale. Though supplies are
dispatched according to a grand
arterial plan of which they could
approve, recovery is through a mil¬
lion byways.; Thp network of small
veins through which spent blood
trickles back towards the heart and
lungs in a sluggish flow seems
beneath attention. Few taken in
isolation make much contribution to
the whole. Yet the whole is very great

A decaying and isolated bam is. if
you like, the rural equivalent of a
brownfield site, but so many object
tions — perfectly valid objections —
can be raised to developing it that
they overwhelm us. If a minister
interested in the case I develop here
should put it to the Sir Humphreys,
his or her enthusiasm will falter fast
in the face of a barrage of small
difficulties whose crowning argu¬
ment will be that in return for a
thousand raised hackles we would, at
best, achieve a flea-bite’s worth of
new homes—and probably not in. the
places thai we wanted them anyway.

A nd the result? Bam by bam
they bite the dust, but
gradually. And in the end
we shall have no bams left
at all. just heaps of the nibble that
cannot be sold — and the pressure of
politicians to provide new homes will
grow. When democratic pressure
overwhelms, a wall will be breached
and another great surge of greenfield
building will be waved through. We
end, I suggest, by losing more than
we would have lost by the sight of
washing-lines with clothes flapping
in the wind outside once-sad build¬
ings where a family for whom the
place will be paradise can now live.

We need a change in the culture of
refusal. The one-by-one applications
which, as Harvey demonstrated, can
build to so much, could amount to
perhaps 10.000 new homes without
the construction of a single new
building: homes which people, espe¬
cially people with children, would
love. We could even insist that they
feature attic nesting boxes for the
bam owls.

Dogs’ dinner

asked Sir Elton.",It’s time to move
on Ian. this is the 1990s." Just so.

DOGS are to bound on to London's diplomatic stage with a garden party
in honour of the furry friends of ambassadors to toe Court of St James.
The tea is to be served by the Czech Ambassador. Pavel Seifter (pictured),
celebrating the release of his beloved ll-year-old grey shnauzer. Cutty,
who has just endured six months' hard biscuits in quarantine. Dogs and
their guests will be entertained next month with games such as “sniff out
the hidden microphone" and a beauty contest to find Miss Jailhouse ’98.
However, racing will not be

Pitch’n’pulpit

allowed because the Czech Ambas¬

sador’s garden is too short

Joining their excellencies and
their canines will be Chris Patten,
the former Governor of Hong
Kong, who became a determined
opponent of toe quarantine laws
after he was forced ro leave his
Norfolk terriers. Whisky and Soda,
in France rather than consign
them to six months in toe clinic.
Cutty will be joined by another
diplomatic son’s pal. Eddie the
French bulldog, with whom it is
suggested that Cutty improved
international relations during their
incarceration.

Students of national traits will be
watching toe garden party with
keen interest Will toe German
Ambassador bring a rottweiler toe
French a poodle, toe Mexicans a
chihuahua; the Swiss a Sr Bernard;
the Japanese a shihtzu? “We hope
to have doggy drinks and bake
special biscuits in the shape of

bones," says a large plumed haL
“Our only concern is whether there
are enough trees for our guests."

BISHOPS who swing should find
the Lambeth Conference more fun
than normal. They are due to take
part in a charity golf tournament,
which w-ill be helped along by
champagne and whisky. The tour¬
nament, in aid of the United Soci¬
ety for the Propagation of the
Gospel, will feature priestly com¬
petitors and five bishops — wear¬
ing specially-designed polo necks
of episcopal purple with white col¬
lars. Hie logo? A mitre, golf ball
and tee.

Among toe keen dubsmiths is
the Bishop of Whitby, the Right
Rev Gordon Bates (handicap: 24
and rising). "Golf gets me out of the
church," he says. “We bishops will
have to mind our language with all
this laity abouL"

spiritualists have taken over toe
top floor of her Maidstone constitu¬
ency office and their happy-clappy
attempts to raise toe dead are pre¬
venting Ann from doing God’s
work below: “1 can’t approve of all
this calling up the spirits." says
Ann, a good Roman Catholic girl.
The spirtualists have some curious
rituals: "They put blankets over toe
pictures of John Major and myself
in case our presence interfered
with their services."

Following her jaunt to toe Caribbe¬
an. Boris Yeltsin has asked her to
become the first British Speaker to
visit Moscow's Duma, in the hope
that his warring deputies might
learn some Westminster-style dis¬
cipline. During the October visiL
Gennadi Selenzyov. the Duma
Speaker, will be able to hear Bet¬
ty's views on his plan to charge
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the nation¬
alist leader, with "hooliganism"
after he hijacked toe floor of the
Lower House. But Ms B will not be
handing out all toe advice. “We are
going to listen," says an aide.
Sounds as if Dennis Skinner could
be in trouble when she returns.

• AFTER insulting the Queen, Ian
Paisley has laid into another of the
nation's treasures. Sir Elton John,
fresh from entertaining peace-
lovers in Belfast , claimed yesterday
that the Unionist dinosaur had
called him the "Sodomite at
Stormont". “But what can / say?"

• WHAT price Cool Britannia? At
a recent dinner party ike PM said
"Look, / know it’s not very PC to say
this, but l am really proud of the
British empire"

• NOT content with producing a
IJS6-page doorstop lo mark his
75th birthday . Norman Mailer
has shown he still has energy: he
has signed all 35J000 copies.

• THE tough-talking Mayor of
New York, who boasts of sweeping
the homeless from the Big Apple's
streets, is to address Britain's big¬
gest housing conference to add a
bit of dash to its damp proceed¬
ings. The invitation to Rudy Giul¬
iani has not pleased the New York
Coalition for the Homeless: "it's
like asking Boris Yeltsin to talk to
recovering alcoholics."

Dusty clear-out

(pictured), who I am sorry to learn
is undergoing radiotherapy for
breast cancer, has flogged her 275
songs lo Prudential Insurance. My
man from toe Pru says: “It's a one-
off deal. Dusty felt the rime was
right. Future dealings will depend
on her health." I wish her well.

Spirit levels Betty’s beano

ANN WIDDECOMBE is having
trouble from above. A group of

ITS toe time of year when Betty
Bootorqyd begins to fancy abroad.

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD, sexy-
voiced singer of toe classic Son of a
Preacher Man. is selling her song
rights to a trust for up to £6.25 mil¬
lion. Hie 59-year-old performer

• BT PHONE boxes have started
popping up in deepest Surrey with
four language options — English,
French. German and ... Welsh.

Jasper Gerard

Philip

Howard

■ Being truthful
with the
economics...

J apanese can be translate!
into English only with diffi¬
culty and consequent cock-

up. The linguistic confusion over
whether kokoro no itami means
mental or physical pain, sorrow
or sorry, recurs with every
attempt at translation. For ex¬
ample, shizuka is translated as
“silent". But the Japanese word
carries far wider connotations of
“silent, quiet or peaceful" Eng-
iish composed by Japanese often
crashes, with a literal transla¬
tion of Japanese thoughts and
expressions. For example. “Re-
Spice Enjoy fashion fife” and
"Soft in one" (hair conditioner).
Local expressions are drawn
from English and used in Japa¬
nese ways. For example
imejiappu, “to image up",
means “improving one's im¬
age". With press twisters spin¬
ning every word for Japanese
and English readers, mutual
misunderstanding is inevitable.

Because of the extreme differ¬
ences in language, culture and
history, Japanese is toe second
most difficult language to trans¬
late. But economics is toe hard¬
est. This has become toe quack,
queen of modem science. Its
jargon is impenetrable, its pre¬
dictions are immediately falsi-
fiable and reversible, and its
practitioners might as well be
speaking Japanese. So last
night’s launch of The (monu¬
mental) New Palgrave Dictio - •
nary of Economics and the Law
ought to be a godsend to those of
us who have trouble in distin¬
guishing between predatory and
vegetarian pricing, or who hide
from monetarist bigots and fox -
gospellers from all quarters.

The massive volumes of this
new Palgrave (brother of the
•more famous Pajgrave of the
Golden Treasury) wifi be worth
their weight in share options for
that quarter of the population
engaged in economics. Students
of the bogus subject can crib
their essays on tradeable pollu¬
tion rights. Teenage scribblers
can find a wonky peg for
tomorrows article. “Profession¬
al" economists can identify the
fallac ies and follies of their
rivals. Politicians can look up
“post-neoclassical endogenous
growth theory" in the regimen¬
tal sergeant-majors hope that
“bullshit baffles brains”. But for
the rest of us, a plain man’s
dictionary of economics is need¬
ed. Along toe lines of: .

• Economics is the systematic
complication of toe simple
truths of housekeeping. Most of
us have enough trouble with
persuading the hole-in-the-wall
to spit us out money rather than -
an insulting statement without
dressing toe transaction up in
jargon. An economist is a man
who would many Gwyneth
Paltrow for her money. He
knows 100 ways of making love
but he doesn’t know any
women. You can make even a
parrot into a learned political
economist — all he must Jeam
are the two words “supply" and
“demand". Economy is the art
of spending money without get¬
ting any fun out of it

• Positional good: If positional
goods remain in fixed supply
while material goods become
more plentiful, the price of
positional goods will rise, as
consumers’ relative intensity rf
demand for them increases in .
terms of material goods. Eh?
Skiing was fun while playboys
had toe virgin pistes to them¬
selves. Now that the masses can
aspire to MPribel, you have to
queue ali day to get on toe ski-
lift. Motoring was OK when
Dorn ford Yates heroes and
heroines were spinning along
the open road in their Bentleys.
But now sitting in a tailback on
the M25 is positionally static.
Possessing Palgrave is a posi¬
tional good. But it will slip down
the hierarchy of values once
your students get access to it

• Brevity may be the soul of wit
but it is toe death of economics.
Any Red Book or article on
economics is improved incre¬
mentally by the density of its
tables, preferably primed upside
down. Or as a high priest of the
mumbo-jumbo let the cat out of
the bag: “Every statement in
regard to economic affairs
which is short is a misleading
fragment a fallacy or a truism."
So what about his statement?

• He was wrong: as in other
less specious disciplines, toe top
economists can explain their
tautology of the week in plain
and randse language. I like toe
Prof in Palgrave who explains
rus argument with the image of
walking along a narrow path in
toe high Andes with a steer
drop on one side and a sheer diff
° n toe other. You meet some¬
body walking in the opposite.
direction. His solution to this
positional problem is to draw
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THE TIMES FRIDAY MAY 29 1998

THE PAKISTAN FALLOUT

Outrage is not enough to halt the threat of war

Five more nuclear devices were detonated in
the sub-continent yesterday, spreading
shockwaves of anger and alarm across the
gobe and triggering further sharp cuts in
Western aid to millions of people whose
future has been mortgaged bv their leaders
The Pakistan tests hardly came as a
surprise: ever since India detonated its own
bomb, the domestic pressure on Nawaz
Sharif's Government to respond in kind has
been intense. Islamabad virtually an¬
nounced that it was going ahead by its
alarmist, and mendacious, warning on
Wednesday that India was about to attack.
Delhi, now counting the huge moral and
political cost of its advenrurism, did its best
to goad Pakistan, hoping that a Pakistani
test would retrospectively justify the Govern¬
ment’s action to voters at home and break
India's moral and political isolation. Fool¬
ishly. Pakistan played into Indian hands.

The world has responded with predictable
frustration. President Clinton, personally
rebuffed after repeated attempts to counsel
caution, said he had no choice but to impose
the same sanctions ordered on India. Japan
and Germany announced the suspension in
aid programmes, and many other donors
will follow suit Significantly, China, the
country that for years has armed Pakistan
and even encouraged its nuclear ambitions,
voiced “deep regret" and raised the spectre of
a deadly new arms race in South Asia.

Nawaz Sharif anticipated all this. He also
knew that Pakistan, with an economy only a
tenth of India’s and already in deep trouble,
can afford a suspension of vital development
aid far less than its neighbour. He knew that
he was throwing away the chance of
increased American aid. a position of moral
superiority and the opportunity to halt the
spiral of recrimination and retaliation. Yet
he argued that Pakistan’s vital security

demanded a nuclear response. In doing so
he rode roughshod over the real interests of
his impoverished countrymen. And he
underlined the frailty of Pakistan's own
cohesion, which is increasingly determined
solely by enmity to India.

Jn both capitals there has been a
cacophony of injured seif-justification. Each
government, scarcely in full command, has
courted short-term domestic popularity with
nationalist gestures. Yet each has felt the
need for a figleaf to cover its belligerent
posturing. India has offered a treaty of no
first use of nuclear weapons; Pakistan,
within hours of its tests, said it was ready to
discuss all outstanding issues, including a
non-aggression pact.

These offers, insincere and hedged around
as they might be, should be immediately
taken up. For the next stage of this deadly
cycle is far more alarming: the race to aim
newly developed long-range missiles with
nuclear warheads. For the moment the two
countries will pause, to take stock of each
other and the whirlwind they have un¬
leashed. Washington has little leverage in
the region. But collectively the big powers
do. And their collective determination to stop
a nuclear arms race was made vigorously
clear at the recent Birmingham summit of
the Group of Eight Now. therefore, is the
time for the eight countries that account for
most of the trade, aid. arms exports and
political influence in the sub-continent, to
involve themselves. They should appoint a
political negotiator to visit the region.
Canada, a fellow Commonwealth country
and passionate advocate of arms control, is
the best placed. A senior Canadian should
now visit Delhi and Islamabad to attempt
the first step at de«scalation. including
discussion of Kashmir. Outrage is not
enough to halt the threat of a new war.

ROT UNDER THE ROUBLE

How to inoculate Russia against the Asian disease

Russia’s determination to defend the rouble
is not in doubt. Nor is the determination of
America, Germany and the International
Monetary Fund to help it to do so. For all
parties, a stable rouble makes political as
well as financial sense. A steep rouble
devaluation would be catastrophic The
restoration of confidence in the currency has
been a slow and hard-fought battle and the
key to bringing down inflation. For Rus¬
sians, this is the single universally felt
benefit of reform. There would be a huge
political backlash if hyper-inflation were
again to threaten people’s savings.

Foreign investors, who despite their
misgivings are still heavily present in
Russian equity markets, would pull their
remaining money out. Many Russian
banks, unable to service an estimated $15
billion in foreign borrowings, would be
pushed to the edge of insolvency, or even
over the precipice. Russia’s hopes of eco¬
nomic growth would be dead in the water.

But Russia cannot afford to defend the
rouble through keeping interest rates sly-
high. At interest rates of 25 per cent
servicing government debt consumes about
a quarter of state spending. At anywhere
near Wednesday’s emergency 150 per cent
the costs would pierce the stratosphere.
Russia’s allies have every interest in helping
it to weather the latest storm ; it would cost
far less in bridging loans and some debt re¬
structuring to stave off collapse than would
be required if market reforms were derailed
in conditions of extreme political instability.

But there should be tough conditions
attached to any rope thrown Moscow’s way.
It is high time the Kremlin got serious about
balancing the books by methods other than
borrowing. There are only two ways to do
this: cutting spending and raising revenues.
Reforms are in train. Moscow has agreed
with the IMF plans to prime spending this
year by 2 per cent of GDP. These would cut
more than 200,000 civil service jobs, which
will be hugely unpopular and may represent
a theoretical rather than actual budgetary
saving, since thousands of public sector
employees are currently paid months late or

not at all. Increasing revenue is at least as
important and with oil prices severely
depressed, that depends on collecting taxes.

At 18.3 per cent of GDP last year,
government spending in Russia is in fact not
that high; but 1997 tax revenues were a mere
10.8 per cent ■— half what they should be. and
a smaller proportion of wealth than many
poor countries manage to haul in. Boris
Nemtsov, whose record on reforms com¬
mands respect has issued an ultimatum to
the big utilities to pay up. Their compliance
will be an important test of the new Govern¬
ment's authority over the crony capitalists
who dominate these sectors. But die priority
must be to get the Government’s simpler,
fairer new tax code through the Duma.
There are reasons why die Russian system
depends almost exclusively on corporate
taxes; the tax collection system is simply not
equipped to gather personal income taxes,
let alone VAT—and there is profound public
resistance to paying personal taxes when
pensions go unpaid and services such as
education and health are starved of cash.
But corporate taxes must be simplified, if the
current compliance rate of 17 per cent of
companies is to improve, and coupled with a
streamlining of the regulations that make
businessmen instinctive avoiders of the law.

Tax reform is politically vital because it is
a precondition for reducing an estimated $9
billion in wage arrears, a social injustice
which has done more than anything to erode
public support for market reforms. It is a
necessary step towards reviving the basic
functions of the State. Over the past six
years. Russia has done much to dismantle
the command economy, privatising and
liberalising trade: but little to convert an
unprofessional and corrupt bureaucracy
into a just effective public sector capable of
providing core services, enforcing anti-
monopoly laws and fighting crime. Presi¬
dent Yeltsin is seen, with some reason, as too
close to the rich industrial and financial
carpetbaggers who thrive on a dysfunctional
State. As an emerging market Russia is
inescapably vulnerable to Asian flu: a
speedy course of inoculation is urgent

PASS THE KETCHUP

The food prigs have squashed tomatoes and stew on their faces

Dietitians may have red faces today. It
seems they have been talking a load of old
tommy rot For years the British, so
maligned for a ketchup and chips cuisine,
have been encouraged to turn to healthier
foods. Processed products, it was said, were
nutritionally unsound. A nation was en¬
couraged to turn against its traditions, and
crunch its way dutifully through cruditis.

But “chops and romata sauce” were just
what Dickens ordered. And now it seems the
doctors do, too. Yesterday a group of them
met at the Royal Society of Medicine in
London to examine evidence suggesting that
lycopene, the pigment which makes tom¬
atoes red, can reduce risk of heart disease
and cancer. In raw tomatoes this lycopene
remains trapped tinder the skin of the fruit.
But processing breaks up the cells and
makes it much easier for the body to absorb.
Ketchup is the source of a healthy heart So
are tomato soups, purges and pizza toppings.
It is 400 years since the tomato was
produced to Europe - an Andean cousin of
te native deadly nightshade. It look its
ime from the Aztec tomarl. But in those

• • < * --I tkfl

They believed it to be poisonous and so the
tomato was cultivated simply as an orna¬
mental plant. Only in 1S20. after a Colonel
Johnson had demonstrated its edibility by
eating one raw in front of an astounded
Salem audience, did it start to catch on as a
food. Since it requires relatively warm wea¬
ther and much sunlight to ripen, it became
chiefly a feature of the Mediterranean diet.

But in recent years there has been a red
revolution in Britain. Humble Lycospersicon
now comes in a bewildering array of forms.
Beef, plum and cherry: baked, boiled and
devilled; in stews and sauces, sun-dried or
hickory-smoked. Catching on to a River Cafe
school of c ucina rustica. a nation has been
lured into angiospermal indulgence. The
rise of pizza and pasta are making the
British a healthier race. Yet still it has been
commonly believed that raw food was better,
that we had to swallow our old habits whole,
that fresh fruit and vegetables were the key
to a better diet. How convenient then to find
out that it is ketchup with everything, that
pureed pleasure comes straight from the
tube. A healthy dinner is only the twist of a
rin-onener nr a trip to a takeaway, away. The

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

1 Pennington Street. London El 9XN Telephone 0171-782 5000

Danger in fashion
for referendums

From the Chief Executive of the
Electoral Reform Society and the
Director of the Constitution Unit

Sir. While we cannot accept all
Michael PimoDuschinskys criti-
05ms of referendums (article, “Don!
be a Bonaparte, Mr Blair". May 26),
he does, like your leading article
today, raise important issues.

In 1996 the Electoral Reform Society
and the Constitution Unit set up an
independent “Commission on the
Conduct of Referendums" under the
chairmanship of Sir Patrick Naimc.
The commission stressed the impor¬
tance of establishing dear guidelines
to ensure fairness in the conduct of
referendums; and drafted a set of
guidelines to that end which cover all
the issues you raise.

The commission recommended
that, to keep the organisation and ad¬
ministration of referendums indepen¬
dent of government and party-poli¬
tical interests, an independent sta¬
tutory commission should be estab¬
lished. If an electoral commission
were to be established, as has been
promised by Labour in the past, then
the functions of a "referendum com¬
mission" should be brought within its
remit.

With referendums on the voting
system and European monetary
union in the not-too-distanr future, the
Government should move to intro¬
duce some badly needed ground rules
to maximise confidence m the legiti¬
macy of their results.

Yours sincerely,

KEN RITCHIE.

Chief Executive. Electoral Reform Society.
ROBERT HAZELL.

Dims or. The Constitution Unit.

Electoral Reform Society.

6 Chancel Street,

BJackfriars. SE1 0UU.

May 28.

From MrB. Heys

Sir. Michael Pinto-Duschinsky de¬
serves a loud “bravo"

1 believe h was Mussolini who said
the people did not need to know the
rights and wrongs of a given situa¬
tion: that they needed only to believe
the policy of their government was
right. With a Northern Ireland Secre¬
tary who dismisses as “scaremonger-
ing rubbish” the outcry over an
undenied report that the Director of
Communications at the Northern
Ireland Office had written “It will be
important therefore to ensure that not
all of the results of opinion polling, etc.
will be in the public domajn". in con¬
nection with its strategy for winning
the referendum upon the Northern
Ireland peace accord (report March
28), this Government should not even
try to claim the trust which Mussolini
seemingly thought was his right
Mr Pinto-Duschinsky concluded
his article by saying:
the Government should be willing: to give
the British public every opportunity to
make an independent and fully informed
dedsion.

1 wholeheartedly agree. By calling
any referendum the Government pur¬
ports to transfer to the citizen Parlia¬
ment's duty to deride what is in the
best interests of the nation. “Every
opportunity" must, in my view,
indude a duty on the part of the Gov¬
ernment to give the citizen all the facts
and opinions in it possession, both
for and against the issue in the refer¬
endum: and the Government should
not be able to avoid this duty by
leaving it to the Opposition and media
to elitii and present the facts and
opinions known to it.

Yours sincerely,

B. HEYS.

Mole House, 5 Matham Road,

East Molesey, Surrey KT8 0SX.

May 27. •

From MrJ. E. Humphrey

Sir. Are we becoming a little too prone
to be taken for a nde? Spin-doctors
busiiy working overtime: government
ministers bobbing up in nursery
schools with cameras in plentiful
attendance; where does the fashion¬
able appetite for referendums appear
to be taking us?

One had supposed that the purpose
of a referendum is to ascertain the
opinion of the public, but has it not
lately been accepted, without a mur¬
mur, as a means for the organisers to
propagate their own views, pres¬
surising the public, by argument
cajolery and any gimmick on offer, to
adopt them?

We were shown in the J930s, were
we not how easily and disastrously
even a great people can become too
malleable?

Yours faithfully,

J. E. HUMPHREY,

9 Offington Gardens.

Worthing. West Sussex BN14 9AT.
May 27.

Sales pitch

From Mr Brian Lynch

Sir, Can anyone tell me why the
England football team needs an
“official supermarket” (as Sainsbuiy’s
advertisements put it)?

Yours truly.

BRIAN LYNCH.

3 Marlborough Road.

Brentwood. Essex CM 15 9LN.

May 25.

Letters should cany a daytime
telephone number. They may be
faxed to 0171-782 5046,

Assemblies and worship in schools

From Dr Dennis Witcombe

Sir. As a practising Christian and
former headmaster of a school which
has a 450 years’ Christian foundation.
I found it quite possible to take a reli¬
gious assembly myself (leading arti¬
cle. May 27). Knowing that a bare
quarter of my pupils held the same
beliefs 1 used these assemblies, held
regularly though not daily, to extend
pupils' knowledge of the Bible and to
explain my own beliefs. In a much
imitated phrase I would then invite
“those who wished" to join me in
prayer.

Had I been, like many presort
headmasters and headmistresses,
without any belief of my own and
without any committed Christian on
staff willing to take an assembly in my
place. I would have found inviting
pupils who did not believe to worship
a god in whom I myself did not believe
a very poor way of starting the day. I
fancy a Christian visitor might indeed
have been prompted to exclaim like St
Paul: “God is not mocked".

But perhaps you favour the old
army commands: “On entering the
Chapel you will at once assume an
attitude reverent but subdued. On the
command pray you will all pray like
****»<

Yours etc,

DENNIS WITCOMBE
(Headmaster. Nottingham High
School. 197095).

29 Denewood Avenue, Beeston.
Nottinghamshire NG9 3EU.
dennis@witcombe.demon.co.uk
May 27.

From Mr R. A. Adcock

Sir, Your leader gives the impression
that school assemblies held for
community purposes and those for
collective worship are one and the
same. Most schools recognise the
value of assembly as a means
of developing "corporate identity”,
transmitting values and enhancing
the ethos of the school. They are. how¬
ever. required to make a clear dis¬
tinction between these and religious
assemblies. Also the law allows for
collective worship to take place in

groups other than the whole school.

The main problem is Circular 1/94
which attempts to define worship and
interpret what is meant by “predomi¬
nantly Christian”. It is a theological
shambles and its ineptitude does no
service to Christianity. It prescribes in
such a way that even die head who. in
your terms, “proclaims his own sup¬
port for religious belief” may have
genuine conscientious difficulty in
implementing il

There is probably no widespread
desire to see collective worship abol¬
ished altogether, but if it is to survive
with credibility there is urgent need
for the circular to be withdrawn and
the legislation amended to allow
greater flexibility. Governors and
heads are more concerned about the
quality of collective worship than
about the precise number of times it is
provided.

Yours sincerely,

ROGER ADCOCK
(Chairman. Tiverton High School.
Member. General Synod of the
Church of England)!

The Bam. North Sidborough.
Loxbeare. Tiverton. Devon EX168BY.
roger.adcock.ngc@rmplc.co. uk
May 28.

From Mr John Uqyd

Sir, Your leading article avoids one
particularly stark reality. We may
assume that at least 50 per cent of the
staff in most schools are not practising
Christians. Children are quicker than
adults in sniffing out hypocrisy and
the doctrinal message of the Church is
often met with indifference, which in
later life can turn to resentment

Todays child is, on the whole, criti¬
cally alert and moving towards an
awareness his elders do not under¬
stand. By all means encourage the
schools to practise corporate activities,
but do they really need to be religious?

Yours etc.

JOHN LLOYD.

Little Charlton.

Charlton Marshall,

Dorset DTU 9NW.
famllqyd@aol.com
May 27.

Emperor’s ‘sorrow 9

From Sir Hugh Cortazzi

Sir. Simon Jenkins's article. “A time to
forgive" (May 27), was the best I have
read on foe tribulations of the former
prisoners of war.

. As one who started to study Japa¬
nese 55 years ago. I listened to the
Emperor speaking in Japanese at the
Queen’s banquet on May 26 and was
impressed by the sincerity of his
feelings for those who suffered. The
official translation seemed to me to be
fair and justified.

The impression created by foe
critics is that they are deliberately
attempting to justify their own
discourtesy by mischievous distor¬
tions. Ambassador Chiba is a good
friend of Britain and his remarks
were not, as alleged by Mr Keith Mar¬
tin (report. May 28). “arrogant and
condescending".

Yours faithfully.

HUGH CORTAZZ!

(Ambassador to Japan. 1980-84),

16 Hamilton Close.

London NWS 8QY.

May 28.

Gypsies in Europe

From Mr Mike Hollow

Sir. The Czech Republic and Hungary
are not foe only countries in Eastern
Europe where the Gypsy population
is being targeted (Roger Bqyes 's re¬
port, May 26).

Three weeks ago I was in Bulgaria
as part of my work for foe relief and
development charity, Tearfund. There
I met Gypsy street children who were
living in sewers near foe capital’s
main railway station. Several had
been the victims of beatings by skin¬
heads. In one attack, thugs had
poured petrol down the sewers and
ignited it foe children barely escaping
with their lives.

As countries seek to establish their
place in foe new Europe, it would be
good to see sustained efforts on their
part to safeguard minority rights.

Yours faithfully.

MIKE HOLLOW.

Tearfund.

100 Church Road.

Teddington, TW118QE
mkh@tearfund.dircon.co.uk
May 27.

Duty-free in EU

From Mr Gordon Hafter

Sir, I’m glad ro note from your report
today that EU ministers are paying no
attention to foe letter on intra-EU
duty-free facilities from Lord Sterling
of Pfaisrow and others (May 18). writ¬
ten on behalf of foe Duty Free Feder¬
ation.

Their letter fails to mention that the
majority of cross-border travel within
the EU is by car. bus. train, bicycle or
on foot. Why should foe minority who
travel by air or ferry be subsidised by
the majority who enjoy no duty-free
facilities?

Only in foe case of Great Britain,
Ireland, Sweden and Finland do foe

majority of people have to use a ferry
or a plane to travel abroad. Eurostar
would have captured an even greater
share of foe UK-France/Belgium traf¬
fic than it has if it was able to offer the
same duty-free facilities as the airlines
or ferries.

The situation is quite different for
inter-continental travel. What foe EU
ferry companies and foe airlines/
airport operators want is an un¬
naturally inflated share of foe traffic
through unfair subsidy from the
majority.

Yours etc,

GORDON HAFTER
(Rail transport consultant).

15 Millside Place. IsleworthTW7 6BU.
May 19.

Cinema soundtracks

From Mr James R. Usher

Sir, Your report. “Cinema sound¬
tracks blast audiences out of seats"
(May 21). highlights the problems
faced by the many people for whom
excessive noise is more than a sodal
irritant My father has suffered from
Meniere’s disease for 15 years. Suffer¬
ers from this condition, tike those suf¬
fering from tinnitus, live with a
permanent noise in the ear and can¬
not tolerate any loud or high-pitched
sound.

The BBC^ film critic. Barry Nor¬
man, says that he threatens to leave
the cinema if foe decibel level is not
reduced. Those made 01 by excessive
levels cannot even ran tempi ate visit¬
ing cinemas or anywhere else that
plays loud music.

Your report suggests that only the
0ver-30s suffer. I am 25 and visit foe
cinema regularly. I often find sound¬
tracks unnecessarily loud. Com¬
plaints usually fall on deaf ears
(unsurprising if they watch a lor of
films).

Yours faithfully.

J. R. USHER.

31 Babbacombe Road.

Penketh. Warrington.

Cheshire WA5 2PX.

Health hazards

From Mr William J. Woodward

Sir. Professor Sir Kenneth Stuart
highlights (letter. May 19) govern¬
ment inactivity in legislating against
boxing and passive smoking.

Both of these things are hazards
which people choose to expose them¬
selves to despite foe current perceived
wisdom of their danger, which he
refers to as “the known facts”.

I am more concerned about those
areas where people have no choice
and yet are subject according to
perceived wisdom, to equal or greater
hazard. Emissions from petrol and
diesel engines in city centres, foe
indiscriminate use of herbicides and
pesticides in agriculture, for instance.

Surely government should legislate
against those dangers to foe public
health which the public cannot avoid,
before restricting the freedom of
choice of those people who choose to
participate in the noble art or visit
public houses that allow smoking.

Yours etc,

W.J. WOODWARD,

Kaadan.

High Easter Road.

Leaden Roding, Dunmow.

Essex CM61QF.
bill_woodward@emaiLmsn.com

lino I Cl

Defence of unpaid
charity workers

From the Executive Director of CSV
(Community Service Volunteers)

Sir. Apparently Mr Guy Strafford,
author of foe Bow Group’s report.
What Gets Measured Gets Done, be¬
lieves charity volunteers to be “well-
meaning but incompetent'’ (details.
May 26). He should widen his
experience.

Charities benefit hugely from the
skills and experience of volunteers.
For example. CSV’s retired and senior
volunteer programme relies on the
expertise of 5.000 volunteers, all over
50 and many of whom haw held
senior management positions in blue-
chip companies. Many successful and
effective organisations have been
started by volunteers, whose contribu¬
tion and achievements often go un¬
recognised.

Organisations which involve volun¬
teers have a responsibility to ensure
that their talents are used effectively,
and that they receive appropriate sup¬
port. This does not make volunteers
“difficult to manage”. It simply means
that, in return for giving their rime,
they should be offered challenging
and meaningful opportunities.

Might it not be better to identify
ways to tackle social problems by
channelling volunteers’ energy, in¬
stead of criticising people who bring
enthusiasm and skills to hard-pressed
public and charitable organisations?

Yours faithfully.

ELISABETH HOODLESS,

Executive Director.

CSV (Community Service Volunteers),
237 Pentonville Road. N19NJ.

May 26.

From the Director of the
Kensington and Chelsea
Volunteer Bureau

Sir. Whereas l have sympathy for the
Bow Group’s concerns about the per¬
ceived duplication of charity re¬
sources. I do not agree with its
reported view that unpaid charity
workers can often do as much harm
as good.

There are thousands of volunteers
who have effective and essential roles
in charity services, including some
community projects that are entirely
volunteer-led. Where volunteers are
perceived to be less effective it is
normally because of an employing
charity’s lack of imagination or com¬
petence to gain the maximum benefit
from their volunteers, through badly
managed programmes. Agencies
such as mine work hard to tackle mis¬
management and ensure that volun¬
teers are utilised appropriately.

More and more charities are being
run on a businesslike basis, with
many subject to funding contracts and
agreements that place more emphasis
on performance targets than do many
private businesses. In a culture where
companies are encouraged to donate
their business acumen to charities. I
believe that we will soon see charities
imparting their expertise to business¬
es. especially to some of the service
industries in areas of customer care.

Surely it is up to the Charity Com¬
mission to tackle a situation in which
more than 600 charities may be sup¬
porting foe same cause, by adopting
more selective registration methods.

Yours sincerely,

JAMIE THOMAS,

Director, Kensington and
Chelsea Volunteer Bureau.

Canaiside House,

383 Ladbroke Grove. W10 5AA.

May 26.

Headlight flashing

From Mr W. H. R. Jones

Sir, I have been a member of foe Insti¬
tute of Advanced Motorists for more
than 40 years and last month success¬
fully took their "voluntary reassess¬
ment test”. 1 raised with the examiner
the question of flashing headlights
(letters. May 22 and 27|, which has
become, in my view, a convenient,
quiet and safe way to indicate courte¬
ously that the driver flashed at may.
eg, join or turn across a queue of cars,
and is widely accepted and used as
such. The 1AM has forwarded to foe
Driving Standards Agency a letter
from me to that effect
My examiner agreed with me.

Yours sincerely.

BILL JONES.

Greens tee ves, Belle Vue Lane,
Guilden Sutton. Chester CH3 7EJ.
May 22.

From Mr Ormond Uren

Sir, The French have a further use for
flashing headlights. If a number of
care coming towards you are flashing
their headlights for no apparent
reason, it is because they are warning
you of a speed trap up ahead.
Unfortunately the police are also
aware of this practice and it is punish¬
able by an on-the-spot fine, as a friend
of mine once discovered to her cost.

Yours truly.

ORMOND UREN,

16 Brookfield Park. NW51ER.

ormond.uren@virgin.net

From MrE. J. Banister

Sir. Unlike the Dean of Chester, I find
that the flashing of car headlights nor¬
mally means foe driver cannot find
the indicator or windscreen wipers.

Yours faithfully
EDWARD BANISTER.

Derwent College,

University of York, YOl 5DD.

ejhlD2@york.ac.uk

May 22.

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TIMES FRIDAY MAY 291998

COURT CIRCULAR

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
May 2& The Emperor and The
Empress of Japan this morning
visited the Royal Botanic Gardens.
Kew. were received by the Chairman
of the Board of Trustees [the Visoount
BJakenham). die Director of the
Royal Botanic Garden, Kew {profes¬
sor Sir GhDkan Prance) and the
Mayor of the London Borough of
Richmorxkipan-Thajnes (GounaDor
Mrs Mary Weber}, viewed the Japa¬
nese Landscape area and had talks
with the Japanese Exchange and
Teaching Programme Alumni in the
Dry Stone Garten area.

Their Majesties visited No K)
Downing Street this afternoon and
were entertained to Luncheon by the
Prime Minister on behalf of Her
Majestys Government.

The Emperor and The Empress of
Japan afterwards visited die Royal
Sodety. Carlton House Terrace.
London SWI, and were received by
the President (Sir Aaron KlugJ.

Their Majesties met the Officers of
the Society, listened to a descript io n of
the scientific links between Japan and
the United Kingdom, and sub¬
sequently attended a Reception.

The Duke of Edinburgh. Rdkrw of
the Royal Society, was present.

His Ewcefleng' Mr Osman
Topcagic was received in aodtence by
The Queen and presented the Letters
of Reoil of his predecessor and his
own Letters of Credence as Ambas¬
sador from die Republic of Bosnia
and Herzegovina to the Court of St
Jameses.

Mrs Topcagic was also received fay
Her Majesty.

Sir John Kerr (Permanent Under¬
secretary of State for Foreign and
Commonwealth Affairs) was present
The Ambassador of Spain and die
Mayor ofTfcnid were received by The
Quern and presented to Her Majesty
the "Amarnes de Ttaud" Gold Medal
to ce lebr at e the Golden Wedding
Anniversary of The Queen and The
Duke of Edinburgh.

Her Majesty and His Royal High¬
ness were entertained by The Em¬
peror and The Empress of Japan this
evening at a Banquet at the Victoria
and Albert Museum.

The Duke of Edinburgh. President

Emeritus. World Mae Fund for
Nature-WWF International, today
attended a Lunch at Ogilvy and
Mather Limited. Cabot Square: Ca¬
nary Wharf. Poplar, We of Dogs,
London.

ST JAMES'S PALACE-"

May 28: The Prince of Wales, Patron,
today attended the Foundation for
Integrated Medicine Conference at
the Quem Elizabeth IT Conference
Centre, Westminster. London.

His Royal Highness. Founder and
President. The Prince of Wales'S
Institute of Architecture, this after¬
noon attended a Reception at
Gloucester Gate. Regenrs Park,
London NW1. to mark the launch of
the Orange Millennium Landmark
Competition, organised in associ¬
ation with the institute.

The Prince of Wales this evening
attended a Banquet given by The
Emperor and The Empress of Japan
at me Victoria and Albert Museum.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE
May 28: The Duke of York this
morning visited the British Embassy

Royal engagements

Prince Edward, patron, will attend
a concert given by the London
Mozart Players at the Fairfield
Halls. Croydon, at 8.00.

The Princess Royal. Colonel-in-
Chief. Royal Logistic Corps, will
visit Dalton Barracks. Abingdon.
Oxfordshire, at 10.00; and will
attend a WRVS tea party at the
barracks at 2.15 to mark their
diamond jubilee.

The Duke of Kent, president, the
Royal Institution of Great Britain,
will attend a discourse given by
Professor Pteter Day. FRS, at
Albemarle Street, London Wl, at
8.15.

University news

Cambridge

Corpus Chrisd College

Mr Neil Vickers elected into an A

Fellowship under Statute 21: Sir CoUn

Si John Wilson imo an Honorary

Fellowship.

in Tallinn, was received by Her
Majesiy* Ambassador to the Repub¬
lic of Estonia (His Excellency Mr
Timothy Craddock} and met mem¬
bers of staff.

His Royal Highness later toured
the General Lakuner Military Mu¬
seum in Pirita, Tallinn.

The Duke of York afterwards

unvoted a plaque atthe Fat Margaret

Tower. ThDina to commemorate die
contribution of die Royal Navy to
Estonian Independence 1918-19.

His Royal Highness was received
today by Tbe President of the Repub¬
lic of Estonia at die Presidential
Palace. __ _ .

The Duke of York and The Presi¬
dent this afternoon visited the Esto¬
nian Naval headquarters and
dockyard. Tallinn.

His Royal Highness this evening
amurtod a Dinner given by die
Mayor of Tallinn at the Old Town
HafL

May 28= The Princess Royal. Presi¬
dent. Save the Children Fund, this
morning attended a Conference on
' Dispatches from Disaster Zones'* at
Church House Co n ference Centre.
Great Smith Street. Westminster.
London.

Her Royal Highness. President.
British Knitting and Clothing Export
CounriL this a f te rn oon visiffid
Cartings, 19 Piccadilly. London, and
afterwards visited Wonderful Wraps
Limited, 10 Soudan Road. Battersea.
London.

The Princess Royal. President.
Animal Health Trust, this evening
attended a Dinner at Gfassenbury
House. Cranbrook. Kern.
KENSINGTON PALACE
May 2& The Duke and Duchess of
Gloucester this evening attended a
Banquet given by The Emperor and
The Empress of Japan at tbe Victoria
and Albert Museum.

ST JAMES'S PALACE
May 28: The Duke of Kent this
morning met members of the St
MargaretVaFClifle and Dover
Brandtes of the Royal British Legion
at Maison Dfeu. Dover, and was
received by Her Majesty's Lord-
Lieutenant of Kent (the Lord
Kingsdnwn KG).

ms Royal Highness afterwards
met co mp anions and trustees of St
Martin's Emmanus. Archdiffe Port.
Dower.

The Duke of Kan. President, this
afternoon named the Royal National
Lifeboat Institution lifeboat “City of
London II" at Granville Docks,
Dover.

His Royal Highness this evening
attended a Banquet given by The
Emperor and The Empress of Japan
at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
THATCHED HOUSE LODGE
May 28: Mooess Alexandra. Deputy
CtdoneHn-Ctaief of the light In-
fenny. this afternoon received
Lieutenant General JJF. Deverefl
(Colonel of the Regiment). lieutenant
Colonel JJMI. Spencer upon
relinquishing command of the 7th
Battalion, and Iieutaiant rfjond
C.H.C. Lynch-Staunton upon assum¬
ing the command.

Her Royal Highness and the Rt
Hon.Sir Angus Ogflvy fins evening
attended a Banquet given by The
Emperor and The Empress of Japan
at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Luncheon

Prime Minister

The Prime Minister and Mr Blair
were the hosts at a luncheon held
yesterday at 10 Downing Street in
honour of the Emperor and Empress
of Japan. The other guests were
Mr YtudMko lkeda, the Ambassador of
Japan and Mme HayashL Mr Sadame
Kamakura. Mr Makoto wannabe. Mr
Yosftlo Kartta. Mr Kazuo Chiba. Mis
Yasulm Abe. Mr Takefcszu Kxwamura.
MrTomqyuld KobayashL MrMasahlro
Sam. MrShlaeyuU mrokt the Bishop
of Galldfonl, Mr John Holland. Mr
Yoshlhlko Oyama. Mr Simon Barnes.
Mr Michael McElenw. Ms Heidi Potter.
Mr Christopher Day. Mr Kuma
Hands. Ms Naoko wannabe, Mr Paul
Leslie. Ms Sally Lewis. MS Kazue
MLhara. Dr Nazrene zatar. Mr Ian
Miirgett, Dr Anthony Best. Dr Peter
Paibrook. Ms MtyabTwatanabe. Miss
ReUco Fujitsu Mr Jason Daniel Ms
Elizabeth Silver. Ms MailkoTakam. Ms
Sarah Afanfryn-HIII. Ms Anna

Macmillan, ms Susan n* Clements, Mr
Inacto Rlbtero. Mr Edmund de waaL
Ms RonkeAdenle. MsTsugumTom. Mr
Bill Ampeig. Mr Noel 'nmicher. Mr
Liam O’Brien, Mr Andrew Lee. Ms LUCT
Mapp. Miss Danlka Thomson, Mr
Tony dove. Mr David onne. Miss
Amity COX. Viscount Brooketxnougi.
Lady Susan Hussey, sir John and Lady
Ken; Mr Graham Fry. sir David and
Lady Wright, Lieutenant commander
Toby Williamson and Mr and Mrs
John Holmes.

DF NZIL McNEBANCE

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Primrose Worthington, grand-daughter of W.G. Grace, with a bust of the great man, after opening an
exhibition at Lora’s yesterday to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth

W G remembered by his grand-daughter

By Ivo Tennant

AN EXHIBITION to commemorate the
150th anniversary of tbe birth of Dr W.G.
Grace, one of the greatest of all cricketers,
was opened at Lord's yesterday by his 93-
year-old grand-daughter. Mrs Primrose
Worthington- He taught her to play the
game in his garden at Motdngham,
South London. “My first memory of him
is of playing with his beard when f was a
young girt." Mrs Worthington said. “I
had no idea he was so important I have
learned more about him bom reading

books than when be was alive.” A further
celebration is planned for tbe actual
anniversaiy, July IS, when a match for
the W.G. Trophy is to be held at Lord's.

The exhibition, which will run until
September 5, includes an unfinished
work of Grace loaned by the National
Portrait Gallery and a painting lent by
the Grace family. An early photograph
depicts him holding the bat with which
be scored 1,000 runs in May 1895 and
made his hundredth hundred.

W.G, as he was always known, made
54*211 runs in 43 years on what Colin

Ingleby-Mackenzie. president of MCC.
called: “Terrible wickets when the mower
had not even been invented." Other items
in the exhibition, which is sponsored by
N M Ro thschild, indude the bat which
Grace used for his final innings in 1914.
scoring an unbeaten 69 for Eltham
against Grove Park, and the cap he wore
on an 1891-92 tour to Australia.

“He stood head and shoulders above
all other cricketers," Ingleby-Mackenzie
said. “He was a truly wonderful man."
Grace died in 1915 at the age of 67. a
revered Victorian.

Birthdays today

Mr Colin Amery, architectural
writer and historian. 54; Mr Mich¬
ael Berkeley, composer and broad¬
caster. 50; Sir Douglas Blade,
physician. 85; Sir Christopher
Bland, chairman. Board of Gov¬
ernors. BBC. 60; Mr GOes Clarke,
founder of Majestic Wine and Pet
City. 65; Sir Kenneth Couzens,
former chairman. Coal Products.
73: Sir Jeremy Elwes. chairman. St
Hdier NHS Trust 6L Lord FYaser
of CannyUie, QC, 53; Lieutenant-
General Sir Martin Garrod. 63;
Sir Anthony Grant, former MP. 73;
Miss Linda Esther Gray, opera
anger. 50c Mrs Patricia Harris;
former central president. The
Mothers’ Union. & Sir Robin
Haydon. former diplomat 78; Sir
John Herbecq. former dvfl ser¬
vant. 76; Sir Trevor Hoidsworth,
former chairman. National Power.
71; Mr Bob Hope. KBE. comedian.
95; Mr David Jenkins, former
librarian. National Library of
Wales. 86: Professor Robert Knox,
bacteriologist. 94; Mr Alan Lang-
lands, chief executive. NHS
management executive. 46; Sir
James Marjoribanks. former dip¬
lomat 87; the Eaii of Morley. 75;
Miss Nanette Newman, actress.
59; Mr Italy Pavey. former Editor.
7V Times. 55: Mr Martin Pipe,
racehorse trainer. 53; Lord
RankeQlour. 63: Mr Rands Rossi,
rock singer and guitarist. 49: Mr
Alwin Scbockanflhle, show-
jumper, 61; Mr Cart Tans, stage
designer. 71: Professor R.L Wain.
FRS, agricultural scientist. 87; die
Earl of Wilton, 77; General Sir
Richard Worsley. 75-

Meeting

British Academy of Forensic
Sciences

Professor John Stewart Orr deliv¬
ered his presidental address at a
meeting of the British Academy of
Forensic Sciences held yesterday at
the Law Sodety. Lord Madtay of
Oashfern. president-elect, also spoke.

Memorial services Dimers

Mr PJ1. (!«»■*) Lucas
A memorial service for Mr P-B.
(laddie) Lucas was held yesterday
at St Luke'S, Sydney Sheet The
Rev Christopher KeviD-Davies
officiated, assisted by the Rev
David Brown. Senior Chaplain of
the Royal Maxsden NHS Trust.
Mr Charles PretzEk read the
lesson. Mr Adam Norton read Lost
Lap and Securing the Base, both
by Laddie Locas

Marshal of flie RAF Sir Michael
Beetham gave an address and Mr
Roderick Bloomfield paid tribute.
The Lord-lieutenant of Cam¬
bridgeshire attended and the Chief
of the Air Staff was r eprese nt ed by
Air Vice-Marshal Malcolm
Pledger. Among others presem
were;

Mrs Lucas (widow). Mr and Mrs
Jeremy Lucas and Mr and Mrs David
t-iira* (sons and daughters-In-law),
Christopher.Timothy and Alexander
Lucas (grandchildren), Mr Daniel
Addison. Mrs Richard Sanderson.
Mrs Robin Stenhouse, Mr william
Stenhouse. Mrs Frank HerokL Mrs
David Hero la Commander and Mis
Harry Bates. Mr Justin Sourer and
other members of the ramlly.

Lord and Lady Orr-Ewlng. Lady
Chelwood. the Hon Thomas Hazle-
rigg, die Hon Lady Dundas. Sylvia
Lady wuldnsonTMarshal of the RAF
sir John Grandy. Air Chief Marshal
Sir Nell and Lady wheeler. Vice-
Admiral Sir Roy Halil day. Lieu¬
tenant-General Sir James and the
Hon Lady Wilson. Air Marshal Sir
John Sutton (president 249 Squad¬
ron Association) with Squadron
Leader Dennis McCaig (honorary
secretary); Air Marshal sir Roy
Austen-Smlth. Lady Crowley-Mil¬
ling, sir Roger Tomkys (Master,
Pembroke College. Cambridge), Sir
Paul Biyan. Lady Beetham. 1
General Sir James and Lady
Dame Mary Glen Hale.

Rear-Admiral Jobn O Roberts. Air
Vice-Marshal G C Lamb. Air vice
Marshal Johnnie Johnson. Mrs
Suzanne Goodhew. Mr John Tuofty.
Mr J H Sbelmerdlne, Mr George H
Fox. Mr William Taylor, Mr John
Brew. Mr Vemer Wylie. Mr Peter
Holmes, Mr Murray Lawrence. Mr
and Mrs Nicholas Pretzllk. Mrs
Charles Pretzllk. Mrs Clare Hoare.
Mr Peter Ryde. Mr Christopher Lee.
Mis, Diana Bamato Walker. Mr
william Grandy.

Mr Peter Morris. Mr D W Frame.
Mr William Carr, judge Russell Vick.
qc. Mr r b h adineharn. Mr and Mis
Pfeter Cadbury. Group Captain M R
Trace. Professor M C Lyons, Mis
Romer Nicholson, Mr John Taylor.

Mr and Mrs Tim Smith. Mr Kenneth
Schofield, Dr Gordon Mitchell. Mr D
P Marshall Andrew. Mis Amelia
Buck, Mr peer cooper, Mr Stuart
Wilkins. Mr Roy Hinds. Mr Derek
Davies. Mr Eric Atkins. Mrs Adam
Norton.

Mr Joseph I 220 Clarke (represen¬
ting the Malta High Commission).
Air - Commodore J Broughton (Air
Crew Association) with Mr Danny
Boon (secretary) and Mrs Boon:
Group Captain A B Stephens (Air
Historical Branch), Mr Jeremy
Nichols (Headmaster. Stowe School).
Mr John Flngleton (chairman. Old
Stoic Society) with Mr Chris
Atkinson: Mr T S Corrigan (chair¬
man. Walton Heath Golf Club}.

Mr Bill Howie and Mr Archie
Houston (Princes Golf Club.
Sandwich). Mr David Wright
(president. Old Stole GolBng Sodety)
with Mr Charles Dlmpne Mr J a
Gordon Gram and Mr Peter
Chariton (Royal West Norfolk Golf
Club). Mr Francis Taverner (Sandy
Lodge Golf Club). Mr Nkk Davies
lAldefturah Golf Club). Mr Bobby
Furtoer (Royal St George's Golf Club],
Mr Richard Doyle-DavMson (dir¬
ector. Wentworth Club). Mr tan
Peacock (chairman. Golf Founda¬
tion).

Mr John Whitmore (Oxford and
Cambridge Golfing Society}. Dr
Michael Popp (director. RAF Mu¬
seum). Mr Graham Penn (member¬
ship secretary. Tunbridge Wells
branch of the Royal British Legion).
Mr Ian S C linney (chairman, w * j
Linney). Mr J H C Nicholson (senior
steward. National Greybouse Racing
Club). Mr Les Day. Squadron Leader
V Hester and Squadron Lead er R A
Parfltt (613 Association).

Mr D Rad ruffe (secretary. Bomber
Command Association). Mr Leslie
Colquhoun (Spitfire Sodety). Mr
Dennis Silk (MCC and tfieHawks
Club). Mr Jonathan Dlgby-Smlth
(director. Sponsion* Europe). Mr
Donald Steel (president Association
of Golf wdiets) and many other
friends and former colleagues.

Mrs Eileen Hopkins
A service of thanksgiving for the
life of Mrs EQeen Hopkins was
held at St Gileses. Uley,
Gloucestershire on May 28. Sarah
Hopkins, grand-daughter, read In
Praise of WI Women, by Joan
West. Annettes Hopkins, grand¬
daughter, read Swan Song by
Joyce Grenfell and Rhys Hopkins,
grandson, read Seaside Golf by
John Betjeman. Emma Anderson,
nfee Hopkins, grand-daughter,
sang three verses from Dear Lord
and Father of Mankind. Mr John
Hopkins gave an address.

London Chamber of Commerce
and Industry

Dame Stella Rimington. Chair¬
man of the Institute of Cancer
Research, was the guest speaker at
the annua] dinner of the London
Chamber of Commerce's Women
in Business Group held last night
at tbe Dorchester Hord. Ms M.
Roberts, chairwoman of the group,
was the hoist

Service luncheon

Indian Poller (UK) Association
The Indian Civil Service (Retired)
Association and the Indian Police
(UK) Association held their annual
luncheon at Over-Seas House. St
James's, yesterday. Mr J.M.
Phelps. ICS, and Mr WJ. Kenny.
IP. presided.

Forthcoming

marriages

Army Board

General Sir Roger Wheeler. Chief
of the General Staff, was the host
at a dinner given by the Army
Board last night at the Royal
Hospital Chelsea, id meet General
Peter J. Schoomaker, the 1998
Kermft Roosevelt lecturer. Among

Loriners* Company
Mr Graham B. Forbes. Master of
the Loriners' Company, assisted
by tbe Wardens, presided at the
annual livery dinner held last
night at the Mansion House. Miss
Judith Mayhew. Lord Jenkin of
Roding and Mr Edward Walker-
Arooo, Upper Warden, also spoke.

Mr PJ. Banks

and Miss LE. Ballard

The engagement is announced

between Philip John, son of Mr
and Mrs John Banks, of Retford,
and Laura Ellen, daughter of me
late Mr Anthony Ballard, and of
Dr PhiUada Collins, and step¬
daughter of Professor Edward
Coltins. of Reading.

Mr HJ£ Eastwood
and Miss G.M. Turner
The engagement is announced
between Henry, second son of
Colonel Tun Eastwood, of
Moreton Pinkney. Northampton¬
shire. and of the late Mrs (Gillian)
Eastwood, and Gillian, daughter
of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Turner,
of Frinton-on-Sea. Essex.

Mr DJ. Haylor
and Miss l.T. Camming
The engagement is announced
between Damjan Julian, youngest
son of Mrs Olga Cahursky. of
Chelsea, and Mr Brian Hayior, of
Bayswater. London, and India
Tracy, only daughter of Mr Brian
dimming MBE, and Mrs
Dimming, of Plympton. Devon.
Mr SJ. Hibberd
and Miss H.C. Stevenson
The engagement is announced
between Stephen John, son of Mr
and Mrs John Hibberd. of Cowes,
Isle of Wight, and Helen Dare,
elder daughter of Mr and Mrs
David Stevenson, of Chew Magna.
Somerset.

Mr C. Humble
and Miss K. Finnr
The engagement is announced
between Charles, son of Mr and
Mrs Nick Humble, of Beenham.
Berkshire, and Kxistiaana.
daughter of Mr and Mrs Fetter
Finne. of Aimeria. Spain.

Mr A.M. Jones
and Miss GAT. Rayner
The engagement is announced
between Andrew, younger son of
Mr and Mrs Frank Jones, of
Bagshoi. Surrey, and Gillian,
younger daughter of Mr and Mrs
David Rayner, of York.

Dr C.E.R. line
and Mias SAJ. Green
The engagement is announced
between Charles, eldest son of
Commander and Mrs Timothy
Line, of Salisbury, and Sophia,
daughter of Professor and Dr
Malcolm Green, of Oxford.

Mr R. little

and Miss LC Brigstodre
The engagement is announced
between Bob. son of Mr and Mrs
Robert Little, of Toronto, Canada,
and Lucy, daughter of Mr and Mrs
Nicholas Brigstocke. of Linchmere.
Surrey.

Mr AJ.K. Marshall
and Mis VJ. Crossfey
The engagement is announced
between Andrew, son of Mr and
Mrs James Marshall, of Dunning.
Perthshire, and Victoria, daughter
of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Cross ley.
of CdeshiU. Buckinghamshire.

Aiglon

College

Aiglon College, the British multi¬
cultural School in Switzerland, is
pleased to announce that their
Board of Governors has now been
joined by Dr Jeffrey Jones and Mr
Richard Boulton. Dr Jones is
Principal Lecturer/Research Co¬
ordinator at the School of Edu¬
cation in the University of
Wolverhampton. Mr Foulton was
Head Master of Wydiffe Cbllege.
Gloucestershire, from 1980-86.
Christ’s Hospital. West Sussex,
from 1987 until 1996 and founder
Head Master of tbe International
School of the Regents. Thailand.

Service

dinner

Advanced Class Dinner Club
Mr George Robertson. Secretary
of State for Defence, was the guest
of honour at the annual dinner of
the Advanced Class Dinner Club
held last night in Woolwich.
Lieutenant-General E.F.G. Bur¬
ton, president of the dub. was in
(he chair.

Mr N J- Marcham

and Miss R-D-ChampKni-

^f^^neni is announced
ttfweofNicholas, son of Mr and
JS^William MardwnL of
Carshaltort, Surrey, and Rad^.
nix Sutton, daughterof ajtd
Mrs Simon MacPheison. of
Harrow on the HOI. Middlesex.
Mr N-P- Mono _

and Miss Ml Seabrodi
The engagement »
between Neil, eldest son of Mrand
MfS m. Mum. of Bnmsajra.
Holland, and Mdamfi.eldest
daughter of Mr and Mis RA.
Seabrook- of KenL

Mr M B. Rees
and Miss I.R. Pnsher
The marriage will take ptoe on
June 14. 1998, in Miami, between
Maohew Beynon. son of Mr and
Mrs David Rees, of Croydon.
Surrey, and Ilene Rebecca,
daughter of Mr and Mrs Murray
Prusher. of Fort Lauderdale.
Florida. USA.

Mr D.K.R.S. TTmrsx
and Miss S.P. Sutherland
The engagement is announced
between David, son of Mr and
Mrs Anthony Thursz. of Standing
Stones. Kinniside. Cumbria, and
Serena, daughter of Mr and Mrs
Kenneth Sutherland, of Edinburgh.
MrJ.M. Wootton
and Miss SJ. Winn
The engagement is announced
between John, son of Mr and Mrs
Barry Wootton. of Rayne, Essex,
and Suzanne, younger daughter of
Mr and Mrs Geoffrey Winn, of
Scalby. North Yorkshire.

Marriages

Mr iCA. Carter
and Mrs G. Wookcy
The marriage took place on
Friday. May 22 between ~ Ken
Carter and Gillian Wookey.

MrT. Chenevte-Trencb
and Mrs R. Osborne
The marriage took place on April.
2,1998 between Mr Tim Chenevix-
Trench and Mrs Rivka Osborne.
MrP-MJ.Gibfa
and Miss B.V. Pnd den
The marriage took place on
Saturday. May 23 at St Mary's
Church. Buddebuzy. Berkshire, of
Mr Piers Gibb, younger son of Mr
and Mrs Robert Gibb, of
WadhursL Sussex to Miss Briony
Pudden. only daughter of Mr
Jonathan Pudden, of Marlston.
Berkshire, and of Mrs Rosanne
Pudden. of Shrewley. Warwick¬
shire. The bride was given in
marriage by her father and Mr
Alexander Gibb was best man. A
reception was bdd at Brockburst
SchooL .

Mr M-A. Metcalfe
and Mis K.F. Spanoghe -

The marriage took place in Scot¬
land. an May 28. 1998 between
Mike Metcalfe, of Boscasde. and
Kate Spanoghe. of Cheltenham.

Anniversaries

BIRTHS: King Charles U. reigned
1660-85, London. 1630; John
Walker, inventor of die friction
match. Stockton-on-Tees. 178U
Isaac Albfefiiz, composer,.
Campnxfon, Spain. I860; GX.
Chesterton, writer. london, 1874;
TJJ. White. novdisL Bombay.
1906; Tenzing Norgay, Himalayan
climber. 1914; John Fitzgerald Ken¬
nedy, 35th American President
1961-63, Brookline. Massachusetts.
1917.

DEATHS: Sir Humphry Davy,
inventor of the miners safety
lamp, Geneva. 1829; Sir William
Gilbert, librettist of the Savoy
operas. London, 1911; John Barry-,
more, actor. Hollywood, 1942;
Fanny Brice, comedienne and
singer, Los Angeles. 1951; John.
Gunther, journalist. New York/
1970; Mary Pickford. actress,
Santa Monica. California. 1979.

Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa
Tenzing Norgay reached, the
summit of Mount Everest 1953. *
Forty-one spectators died, and
more chan 350 were injured, when
Liverpool and Juventus fans- ri¬
oted. Heysd Stadium, Belgium.
1985.

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Obituaries

BILL BOWMAN

Bowman helped vegetable wholesalers to meet the challenge of the supermarkets

STEFAN

SOBONIEWSKI

Bill Bow man. CBE,
chairman of the Covent
Garden Market
Authority, died of cancer
on May 11 aged 65.

He was born on
October 22.1932.

B ill Bowman was a
businessman of the
old school who put
people first. As chair¬
man of the Govern Garden
Market Authority he was
steadfast in his support of the
traders who occupy the
Vauxhall site in South
London, and was the first
chairman of the authority to
know most of them by name.
When he took on the job in
1988 it was on what appeared
to be a dear understanding
that he should prepare Covent
Garden for privatisation. It
soon became obvious, howev¬
er. that his political masters
were less interested in
revitalising the famous mar¬
ket than m gening the best
price for 56 acres of prime real
estate. Bowman called it asset
stripping, and he would have
none of it.

He acknowledged that su¬
permarkets’ direct buying was
bound to reduce the number of
fruit and vegetable wholesal¬
ers. but he was convinced that
he could fill the gap by ex¬
panding into the wider
reaches of catering, offering
traders a base from which to
supply hotels, restaurants,
schools and airlines. It was a
policy that reversed the for¬
tunes of Covent Garden, al¬
though Bowman was disap¬
pointed in his ambition to set¬
tle the future by brokering a
merger with Smithfield Mar¬
ket That proposal made emi¬
nent economic sense at a time
when Smithfield had virtually
to be rebuilt to satisfy new
hygiene requirements, but
even Bowman’s diplomatic

manoeuvring could not per¬
suade the Corporation of Lon¬
don to part wiih its meat
marker.

Bom in Leeds. William
Powell Bowman was a York-
shireman through and
through. He was educated at
Uppingham and in 1953. after
National Scnice in the RAF.
he joined the family business.
Goodall Backhouse, makers of
Yorkshire relish and other
pungent sauces designed to
sharpen the dull cuisine of
postwar Britain. His ambition
then was to take Goodall
Backhouse into the major
league but six years on. when
he was sales director, the
company had to be sold to pay
the death duties on his grand¬
father's estate.

Cast adrift in the grocery
trade. Bowman was snapped
up by Cheeseboro Ponds,
where he sold cosmetic creams
for two years before being
headhunted by Dorland Ad¬
vertising. the family firm of
Hector Laing. later Lord Laing
of DunphaiJ. At this turning
point in his career. Bowman
found himself in charge of the
McVitie's account just at the
time when Laing was engi¬
neering the merger of Mc¬
Vitie's, Crawford and MacFar-
Iane Lang to form United Bis¬
cuits. Bowman was deter¬
mined to join the team. "You
don't seem to know much
about marketing," he told his
boss. “You need me." Laing
agreed, and Bowman stayed
with United Biscuits from 1963
until 1984.

His great achievement was
to establish the company in
Japan, where on one occasion
his infectious enthusiasm for
his product earned a standing
ovation from an audience of
sales delegates who turned
out to be engineers. Redir¬
ected to the correct meeting.
Bowman repeated his perfor¬

mance to even greater acclaim.

But it was his Iasi job with
United Biscuits, as group per¬
sonnel and public affairs dir¬
ector during the cutback years
of the Thatcher revolution,
that proved Bowman’s worth
as a conciliator, able to defuse
any dispute with good humour
and sympathy. With factories

closing and redundancies at
record levels, morale nonethe¬
less remained high in the
company, where employees
could be sure of a fair deal.
The heahheare scheme he
introduced, one of the first of
its kind, benefited a workforce
of more than 40,000.

Bowman’s energetic in¬

volvement in the British Ex¬
port Council and the Overseas
Trade Board led to his becom¬
ing founder chairman of the
British Food Export Council,
for which he was appointed
OBE in 1972. He was also
chairman of the Flowers and
Plants Association. The chari¬
table cause dearest to his heart

was the Trident Trust, an
industry-sponsored organis¬
ation that pioneered work
experience for young people in
their last years of schooling.
Bowman had to overcome the
cynicism and, on occasion, the
outright opposition of teachers
and unions, but during his ten
years as chairman the value of
work experience came to be
widely appreciated

When his term with Trident
ended he moved on to another
youth organisation, the Wes¬
ton Spirit. Inspired by Simon
Weston, the Falkiands War
bums victim, the Weston Spir¬
it runs confidence-building ac¬
tivities for inner-dty teenagers
who have missed out on tile's
chances. Bowman’s range of
business contacts attracted
sponsorship and helped to
raise the profile of the charity.

In 1984 Bowman left United
Biscuits to head Royds Adver¬
tising. It turned out to be a
short-term post Royds* parent
company. Extd. was in the
throes cif a takeover battle. As
a defensive measure it decided
to sell Royds, a task which
Bowman handled with con¬
summate skill though it meant
doing himself out of a job.

Soon afterwards he was
invited to become chairman of
Covent Garden. Theoretically
it was a pan-time position, but
with characteristic energy
Bowman soon made it futi-
time and more, arriving at the
market at 6.30am. when trad¬
ing was brisk, before facing up
to the rest of the day’s work. To
secure Covent Garden and put
it on a sound financial basis
became something of a mis¬
sion for Bowman. When he
did retire, just five weeks
before his death, he was still
defending Covent Garden
against the Treasury.

Bowman was advanced to
CBE in 1995. He leaves his
widow, Paddy, and two sons.

Sudan Soboniewski.
former president of the
Polish Combatants
Association, died on May
7 aged 91. He was born on
December 7.1906.

WHEN the Second World
War ended Stefan Soboniew-
sfci was unable to return to
what soon became communist
Poland. He came bade to
Britain, where the Govern¬
ment had set up a Resettle¬
ment Cbrps for Polish
combatants. He became a
founder member and later
president of the Palish Com¬
batants Association, helping
ex-sa-vicemen to assimilate
into civilian life. Investing
funds from the disbanded
Polish Army, h provided em¬
ployment. legal advice, educa¬
tion and welfare for Polish
families. It also gave suste¬
nance to countless Polish war
invalids who were abandoned
by the communist authorities
in their own country.

Stefan Soboniewski was
bom in a small village near
Warsaw in what was then
Russian Poland. He graduat¬
ed in law from Warsaw Univ¬
ersity, and embarked on a
career first in the legal
department of the Ministry of
Public Works and then at the
Ministry of the Interior.

With the outbreak of war
this career was cut short. By
now married, he was forced to
leave his country and his
family and. travelling illegally
via Romania, he joined that
part of the Polish Army in
France which had survived
the defeat of September 1939.
He was not to see his family
again until they were reunited
in London in 1956.

The fortunes of war brought
him to England to train as an
officer cadet, then to Iraq,

where he joined the Polish
TUnk Brigade. From there, he
went to fight in the Italian
campaign, participating in
the Battle of Cassino.

After the war, his diplomat¬
ic skills, energy and tenacity
made him the ideal leader for
Polish ex-servicemen, giving
help and guidance to mem¬
bers of a community not only
ground down by loss and
separation, but despairing of
seeing their homeland again.
He was at the forefront of the
campaign for an independent
Poland, which he was finally
able to revisit after the fail of
communism.

In the meantime he had
forged links with the British
media and Establishment,
and so it was that the Anglo-
Polish Society was bom. He
enlisted the help of parliamen¬
tarians such as Lord Bamby
and Sir Frederic Bennett,
without whom the Katyn Me¬
morial, which stands in
Gunners bury Cemetery, could
not have been erected. It
commemorates the massacre
of 15.000 Polish officers shot
on Statin's orders.

Soboniewski and Bennett
went on to set up the Katyn
Association, which strove to
keep alive the memory of the
victims by putting up similar
monuments and plaques on
sites around the world. He
was a moving force in the
successful campaign to ex¬
empt Poles from the need to
hold visas to come to Britain.

But the achievement of
which he was most proud was
the building of a housing com¬
plex at Penrhos in North
Wales as a sanctuary for
elderly and retired Poles.

His wife Jadwiga, a dental
surgeon, predeceased him. He
is survived by a married
daughter.

PROFESSOR TONY GLENISTER

ROBERT MULLER

Glenister leadership in both military and medical life

Professor Tony Glenister.

. CBE. anatomist and
military medical adviser,
died on May! aged 74.

He was born on
December 19.1923.

TONY GLENISTER’S career
in academic medidne ran in
parallel with an involvement
in military medical matters, in
which he was an expert. As
an anatomist, he was an
excellent teacher who encour¬
aged his students to acquire a
basic knowledge of the subject
while maintaining a real sense
of reverence. As an Army
officer he had qualities of
leadership which were reflect¬
ed in his role as dean of one of
London’s best-known medical
schools.

Bom in Antwerp. Tony
William Alphonse Glenister
was brought up in Belgium
until shortly before the war.
when his family moved to
England. He was educated at
Eastbourne College and St
Bartholomew’s Hospital Med¬
ical College, where he quali¬
fied in 1947. Having completed
his house posts, he joined the
Royal Array Medical Corps in
1948. before becoming lec¬
turer and reader in anatomy
at Charing Cross Hospital
Medical School, an institution

he was to serve for 39 years.

His thesis on the embryolo¬
gy of emperor penguins
earned him his PhD in 1955.
and he was awarded his DSc
in 1963. He rose to be Profes¬

sor of Embiyology in the
University of London in 1967.
head Df the department of
anatomy at Charing Cross in
1970. and Dean of the Medical
School there in 1976.

Medical education in
London then underwent sig¬
nificant changes, consequent
upon those in the National
Health Service and particular¬
ly at Charing Cross Hospital,
which had recently been re¬
established on a new site in
Fulham Palace Road.
Glenister served there as an
honorary consultant in clini¬
cal anatomy and genetics and
as a member of the Charing
Cross and West London Hos¬
pitals special trustees.

, He played a key role in the
negotiations that resulted in
the merger of the Charing
Cross Hospital and Westmin¬
ster medical schools in 1984,
and was appointed its Dean
until his retirement in 1989,
when the University of
London conferred the title of
professor emeritus upon him.
The leadership skills gained
from his army life fitted Tony
Glenister well for the adminis¬
trative and sometimes polit¬
ical role that he found himself
fulfilling at a time of great
significance in the developing
medical school, where a lec¬
ture hall bearing his name is
his memorial. Throughout his
academic life he promoted his
subject by research and his
various publications, the most
significant being a Textbook of

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Robert Midler,
journalist, playwright,
novelist and screenwriter,
died on May 27 aged 72.

He was born on
September 1,1925.

ROBERT MULLER was a
prolific journalist and gifted
writer. He was responsible for
many successful adaptations
for TV, both BBC and ITV. He
adapted Emile Zola, Isaac
Asimov, Solzhenitsyn, Hein¬
rich Mann (Man of Straw)
and Arthur Schnitzler {Vienna
1900 ). A master of Gothic
horror, he also wrote many
original plays as well as
several novels.

He was born in Hamburg to
a Jewish mother and a Chris¬
tian father. Growing up in
Nazi Germany, where racial
laws dubbed him a Mischling
(of mixed blood), he was
unacceptable to the Aryan
Nazis, banished to a Jewish
school and suffered all the
indignities that the early Hit¬
ler regime inflicted upon the
Jewish population.

He used these experiences
vividly in his novel The World
That Sii/nmer, which he wrote
originally in English. This
describes the split loyalties of
his 11-year-old leading charac¬
ter — a Mischling like the
author—during 1936. the year
the Olympics were staged in
Berlin. He writes of the boy's
fear that his guilty secret
might be discovered — and of
his longing to be tike the other
boys and join the Hitler
Youth. On every page there is
a sense of being a misfit. This
feeling pervaded his own life,
like that of so many other
refugees.

Aware that there was no
future for his son in Germany,
his father — a Viennese the¬
atre designer — packed him
off on a Kindertransport to
England, where he arrived in
1938. He always paid full
tribute to all the kindness
shown to him, but felt he could
never quite lose the feeling of
being regarded as a "bloody
foreigner" — which in the
plural became the title of his

Muller always felt himself to be an outsider in Britain

last television series, tracing
the fortunes of several young
refugees like himself.

First working for Time-life
and Picture Post, the young
Muller was soon recruited by
the Daily Mail and appointed
theatre critic, to match the
Daily Express’s Bernard Lev¬
in, who eventually succeeded
him on the MaiL They became
lifelong friends.

After some years as a jour¬
nalist he was tempted in to
screenwriting at the sugges¬
tion and with the encourage¬
ment of Sydney Newman, the
producer of ABCs Armchair
Theatre. Initially writing
about his theatre days {After¬
noon of a Nymph), he Jaler
investigated subjects such as
Nazism (Night Conspirators),
before emerging as a drama¬
tist and adaptor of classics.

Although he retained tittle
love for ms native land, by the
1980s he found himself work¬
ing more and more in Ger¬
many, as both novelist and
screenwriter. Some 20 years
after writing his first novel.
The World That Summer, he
translated it into German.
(Once published, it was made
into a film and even became a

textbook for use in schools.)

His return to Germany was
also prompted by a desperate
need to find his roots to learn .
about the fate of his family —
especially his maternal grand¬
mother whom he had loved as
a child, a love thal never left
him. He discovered that they
were all murdered. Revealing-
fy. his last play — written in
white heat and as yet unper¬
formed — is about an old man.
a refugee, vainly searching for
his roots. Hamburg honoured
him by making hum a Free¬
man of the City.

Muller was twice married.'
For some years he lived in the
Isle of Man with his first wife'
Eileen, but this marriage was
dissolved in the mid-1960s. He
then met and married the
actress Billie Whitelaw. and
they became a devoted couple.'

Robert' Muller, who had
been ill for some time after
both heart surgery and a
stroke, was a warm and
generous man, loyal, good
company and a good host and
cook. His wife survives him.
together with their son. Mat¬
thew. and two daughters.
Sophie and Clare, from his
previous marriage.

violence in the whole of the great rity of
London in three months. That was a very

Human Anatomy, of which he
was co-author.

Glenister never lost sight of
the Army. He joined the
Territorials in 1950. rising to
the rank of brigadier. From
1957 to 1958 he commanded
144 (1st Home Counties) Field
Ambulance TA and from 1964
to 1967 he served as assistant
director medical services of 44
(Home Counties) Division.
During the four following
years he commanded 217
(London) General Hospital
RAMC(V) and was instrumen¬
tal in having that unit adopted
by the Worshipful Society of
Apothecaries, of which he was
Master in 1991. His appoint¬
ment as Honorary Colonel 220
(1st Home Counties) Field
Ambulance RAMC(V) in 1973
was quickly followed by that
of TAVR Adviser to the Direc¬
tor-General of Army Medical
Services from 1976 to 1979.
with particular responsibility
for advising on the treatment
of casualties of nuclear war.
He was appointed CBE (mil)
in 1979.

Glenister was a Member of
the Order of St John, a
Freeman of the City of
London, and a Knight Com¬
mander of the Military and
Hospitaller Order of St Laza¬
rus of Jerusalem — for which
he spared no effort to obtain
much-needed medical equip¬
ment In retirement he contin¬
ued as a member of the
General Medical and Dental
Councils until 1993. A devout
Roman Catholic, he was on
the board of trustees of The
Tablet

A ready listener, he gave
advice with unfailing courtesy
to colleagues and students
alike, and his wise counsel as
a member of successive health
authorities was greatly appre¬
ciated. His love of the country¬
side and of history were
reflected in his fellowships of
the Zoological Society and the
Royal Society of Arts.

He had known his wife,
Monique, since childhood.
They married in 1948. but she
died two years ago. He is
survived by their four sons.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

A JUDGE'S EXPERIENCE
rN CHICAGO

Judge Kavanagh. of Chicago, gave evidence
before the Select Committee on the Capital
Punishment Bin. at the House of Commons
yesterday.

He said that he favoured the retention of the
capital penalty in certain cases, but it was not
a matter which could be generalised. In some
States in America it was the best deterrent,
and in others noL In New York, for Instance,
there was twice the chance that an assassin
would meet his late than there was in
Chicago, and the homicide rate was more
than double in Chicago than in New York. In
America 16 States had abolished the death
penalty, and right had reintroduced iL

“In 1920," he continued, "we were over¬
whelmed with persons awaiting trial. for
homicide in Chicago. It was my duty » assign
the cases to other Judges. It was a horrible
ordeal. My comparatively small court room
was crowded with men and women who had
taken human life. Fourteen were executed,
and the murder rate in Chicago dropped from
308 to 190. There are perhaps 200 people
walking the streets of Chicago safe and trail

ON THIS DAY

May 29.1930

“Every time the death penalty is not carried
out the murder rate goes up and every time
there is an execution the murder rate goes
down.” said Judge Kavanagh. of Chicago,
giving evidence before the Select Committee
on the Capital Punishment Bill.

today who would have been in Ihdr graves if
these miscreants had not paid the penalty.
Every time the death penalty is not carried out
the murder rate goes up, and every time there
is an execution the murder rate goes down. I
am inclined to believe that the death sentence
is a merciful thing, because H saves innocent
lives. By the use of the death penalty you have
gradually abolished predatory murder."

The World War had exercised no influence
upon crime, either in America or England, be
declared. When he was last in England he
heard Sir Ernest Wild tefl his Grand Jury that
there were only two charges of robbery with

remarkable fact. Homicide had increased in
recent years in America. He attributed that to
the vast influx of aliens from the South of
Europe. The prohibition laws had created a
special kind of criminal, generally of South¬
ern European birth.

Mr W.H, AyJes — Do you think that the
alternative of a life sentence should be given a
chance?

Judge Kavanagh — We have already given
it too much of a chance. There are thousands
in our prisons for killing their fellow-men,
and many of them should have been executed.

Comparing American and British statistics
of homicide, the Judge said that a remarkable
thing about England was the number of
murderers who committed suicide. He
thought that that indicated a feeling of
hopelessness in fighting the laws of the
country. In America a large proportion of
women murderers were poisoners, and others
were guilty in that they incited mot to crime.

Dr Ethd Bentham - Would you make any
difference in the punishment of men and
women?

Judge Kavanagh—Yes. 1 would hesitate to
impose the death penalty on a woman, though
I cannot tell you why. It is a matter of feeling.

V

THE TIMES TODAY

FRIDAY MAY 291998

Pakistan defiant over nuclear tests

■ Pakistan “settled the score” with India by exploding five
nuclear devices, proclaiming itself the first Islamic nuclear
power and stepping up the arms race between two of the
world’s most bitter enemies.

The underground tests in the Baluchistan desert were
conducted in defiance of world leaders who had begged
Pakistanmot to respond to similar tests in India earlier this
month — and brought immediate reprisals in the form of
economic sanctions_-—Pages 1,16,17,25

Diana anniversary plans

■ The two families of Diana, Princess of Wales, have decided

to commemorate the first anniversary of her death by holding
separate memorial services in private at Balmoral and the
Spencers' ancestral home at AJthorp-Page 1

Aid appeals under fire

Clare Short gave a warning of
compassion fatigue and urged
international aid groups to end
"unbearable'' humanitarian ap¬
peals which made people "flinch
and turn away"--Page I

Adams seeks dollars

Gerry Adams held court at the
New York Stock Exchange, seek¬
ing financial support from Wall
Street to open an office for Sinn
Fein in London_Page 2

Young at heart

A schoolgirl who had been earn¬
ing pocket money by operating
heart monitoring machines at¬
tached to critically ill patients has
been dismissed--Page 3

Love on the rocks

When Liam Devine'S girlfriend
interrupted their date by taking
mobile phone calls, he decided to
dump her—in spectacularly liter¬
al. rather than metaphorical,
fashion — over a wall into the
Thames___Page 3

Health in the red

Britain's growing appetite for an
"Italian diet" of pizza, pasta and
tomato sauce could be making us
a healthier nation, together with
— though preferably not on the
same plate — chips generously
doused in ketchup-Page 7

Insurers warned

Medical insurers were told to
simplify their products or face
regulation..—..Page 8

Continental stealth

Labour's policy on Europe has far
more public support than the To¬
ries' Eurosceptic stance, accord¬
ing to the latest MORI poll for
The Times --— Page 10

Exams ‘bonus’ urged

Teachers should face annual as¬
sessments that take account of
pupils' exam results to qualify
for substantial performance bo¬
nuses, a head teachers’ leader
said_Page 14

Indonesian overhaul

Indonesia's political leaders
started work on complete reform
of the electoral system so that the
country's first free elections can
be held next year_Page 18

Gays exonerated

German homosexuals and de¬
serters sentenced in Nazi courts
were exonerated by a large par¬
liamentary majority-Page 19

Nato on Kosovo alert

Nato Foreign Ministers gave
warning that the alliance was
ready to send troops to prevent
the conflict in the Serbian prov¬
ince of Kosovo from spilling
across borders-Page 20

Clinton setback

Court documents disclosed that
secret grand jury evidence had
persuaded a federal judge to force
two important White House aides
to testify about President Clin¬
ton's relationship with Monica
Lewinsky-Page 21

Primate-time television

■ Female chimpanzees are more likely to become television
addicts than males. A study at Edinburgh Zoo, using videos
compiled from David Attenborough documentaries on
chimpanzees, found that the males continued to search for food
or wandered around scratching while the females were happy
to settle down in front of the small screen-Page I

Hooked on art: a head moulded from coat hangers caught a visitor’s eye yesterday during a P**”*”*®**! 1 ? ° f

Arts Summer Exhibition, which opens to the public from June 2 to August 16. The head was created by David Mach

Preview: Screaming Reels crosses
the Atlantic (Channel 4,8pm). Re¬
view: Simon Hoggart worries
about a chic approach to house¬
buying _-—Pages 54,55

The Pakistan felfout

A senior Canadian should now vis¬
it Delhi and Islamabad to attempt
the first step at de-escalation, in¬
cluding discussion of Kashirin ■
Outrage is not enough to halt the
threat of a new war-Page 25

Rot under the rouble;

As an emerging' marks, Russia is
inescapably vulnerable to Asian.
flu; a speedy course of irmocuiatkm
is urgent-Page 25

Pass the ketchup :

How convenient to find out tiat it is'
ketchup with everything, that pu- _ :
rted pleasure oomes straight-flora
the tube. A healthy dmngr.WqDfy- '
the twist of a tin-opener or a trip to "
a takeaway, away——•-

Russia: The battered financial
markets stabilised as the Interna¬
tional Monetary Fund hinted that it
would make a $670 million loan
available soon_Page 29

fn a Jam: The Automobile Associ¬
ation is to consider reforming its
constitution in response to mem¬
bers- who accused the executive
committee of behaving like a "self-
perpetuating oligarchy"— Page 29
Computer wars: The Federal Trade
Commission is to charge Intel Cor¬
poration with abusing its position
as the predominant maker of

microprocessor chips-Page 29

Markets: The FT-SE 100 slipped
7.9 to close at 58623. Sterling's
trade-weighted index fell to 1033
after a fall to $1.6283 and to
DM23956—_Page 32 I

Football: Ian Wright, the Arsenal
striker, was ruled out of the World
Cup after a scan confirmed that he
had damaged his left hamstring
and would need at least two weeks
to recover-Page 56

Cricket: Yorkshire were drawn at
home to Essex and Leicestershire at
home to Surrey in the Benson and
Hedges Cup semi-finals ....Page 52

Cycling: The fifth stage of the
Prutour was abandoned after a
police motorcyclist was killed in a
collision with a car 35 miles from

Birmingham-Page 56

Tennis: Mary Pierce was booed off
court at the French Open after a
7-5. 6-2 defeat by Magui Serna.
Anna Koumfkova reached the
third round with victory over
Katarina Studenikova-Page 54

Trouble brewing: Eduardo de Fili¬
ppo's Neapolitan domestic drama.
Saturday, Sunday... and Mon¬
day. is revived for the opening treat
of the Chichester season—Page 38

Design a mast The Prince of Wales
has challenged designers to make
Britain's planned 40.000 mobile-
phone masts look beautiful. Or¬
ange and The Times launch a
competition—..Page 39

Pop 1: The Smashing Pumpkins
roar back after three years with a
richly rewarding album; David
Sinclair reviews this and the week's

other new CDs-Page 40

Pop 2: Why recording artists of the
likes of Ani DiFranco and the Mut¬
ton Birds are increasingly turning
their backs on the big record labels
and doing it their way.Page 41

TOMORROW

IN THE

SATURDAY TIMES

■ ANNE ROBINSON
The ooh-ahh
appeal of Dyson,
the vacuum king

■ OUT ON THE RAZZ

How top

restaurants

deal with drunken

celebrities

There’s the rub: Six massage meth¬
ods tried and tested, from tradition¬
al Chinese Tui Na to Indian

neurotherapy_Page 22

Dunspylng: Home is now a council
house for Michael Bettaney, former
M15 agent and bungling traitor.
Bill Frost meets his misguided Ox¬
ford contemporary.Page 23

Blair and B6be: Why die Editor of
New Woman was called to brief the
Prime Minister on women's maga¬
zines and their readers_Page 42

Crisis management In Africa,
faced with human tragedy on a bib¬
lical scale, journalists and aid agen¬
cies forge a difficult alliance that
sometimes breaks down.-Page 43
Military manoeuvres: The Ministry
of Defence has allowed cameras to
record the meetings at which
Armed Forces changes are ham¬
mered out---Page 45

Virtual school: Education action
zones promise more traditional
teaching. Might email classes
make more sense?_Page 47

MATTHEW PARRIS

My part of Derbyshire is covered in'
beautiful, abandoned stone build-.
ings, isolated from farms, or vil¬
lages. Stand on any small rise aixi.
you will be able to count half a
dozen tottering bams within a Trite ;

or two of your boots-Page 24 .

JOHN LLOYD

The minimum wage will bring 7
some decency, but at the. cost a£
some jobs. If there is a recession ".
and a rise in unemploymentthe
pressure to lower wages will:

increase----Page 24;

PHIUP HOWARD
Japanese is the second most difi-‘
cult language to translate. Buteco- ,
nomics is the hardest This has
become the quack queen of modem
science— .Page_24

mi

The Clinton Administration’s “soft
policy" towards China continues'
despite Beijing's repeated viola¬
tions of international treaties on
transfer of nuclear and missile
technology to countries like Paki¬
stan and Iran— The Times of India

Bill Bowman, chairman'''.of the .
Covent Garden Market Authority:
Professor Tory Gleraster.. amtto- - -jfc
mist; Robert MuUer, jotirnaiist and,
author- -- PageZ7

Referendum guidelines; school as¬
semblies; charity volunteers; Em¬
peror’s sorrow; duty-free; Gypsies
in Europe; cinema soundtrados
headlight flashing-Page 25

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(5,4,4).

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house is disposed of (8).

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vessel (6).

|8 French chap in British school (6).

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hairstyle (8).

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leaders of rival enterprises (7).

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take lead (9k

3 Money a sucker progressively
reduces (5).

4 Bushranger related to elusive
Manxman? (3,5)-

5 Son needs babywear that's neat
and elegant (6).

6 Old due — do get solution right
(4-5).

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endlessly (6).

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BUSINESS EDITOR Patience Wheatcroft

FRIDAY MAY 29 1998

Members drive AA to consider reforms

The AA. the fourth emergency service, is being pushed towards change

By Fraser Nelson

THE Automobile Association is to
consider reforming its constitution
in response to protests from mem¬
bers who yesterday accused its
executive committee of behaving
like a “self-perpetuating oligarchy.”

The AA has agreed to give
“serious consideration” to proposals
that would eliminate the commit¬
tee's ability to accept a takeover bid
without consulting any of its 9.4
million members.

It has also agreed to encourage
normal members to apply for direc¬
torship positions at the association,
and will consider using a ballot on

issues of particular importance.

The changes have been promised
only weeks after the Royal Automo¬
bile Club decided to sell its motoring
services arm and give £35.000 to its
members from the proceeds.

At a turbulent annual meeting in
London yesterday, Sir Brian Shaw,
AA chairman, was repeatedly criti¬
cised for suggesting that disgrun¬
tled members could “vote with their
feet and leave”.

James Birkin. an ordinary mem¬
ber and failed candiate for the
executive committee, said: “This is
the most extraordinary proposition
for any dub to make. We don’t want
to vote with our feet—what we want

is for our interests to be heard.”

Donald Armstrong, a lifelong AA
member, said: “The experience of
the RAC has woken up the AA mem¬
bers. We want greater control,
greater democracy and greater
transparency."

Sir Brian has agreed to “consider”
Mr Birkin’s proposal that it ap¬
points a separate committee to draw
up potential democratic reforms,
and that it encourages “cold call”
applications rather than make
appointments.

Although the AA is mutually
owned by all its members, its 15
executive committee members have
always had complete discretion over

who should be allowed to vote. Only
the 43 million fully-paid personal
members have the right to the annu¬
al vote — which consists of a show of
hands at the annual meeting.

Sir Brian said the company's
structure is designed to protea itself
against infiltration by the anti-car
lobby- He said: “if we change, there
is a danger that some extremists will
join and dissolve the whole com¬
pany. We have seen this happen
abroad and have seen how other
UK mutual companies have been
hijacked in this way.”

However, he added: “We are a
responsive committee, and listen to
what members have to say."

Business

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IMF loan hint
aids stability
for Russians

By Janet Bush, economics editor

Managing Director, said yes¬
terday that the Pund would be
able to approve the disburse¬
ment of the next tranche of a
three-year $92 billion financ¬
ing facility within days, pro¬
vided Russia took measures to
improve its collection of tax
revenues. The IMF has repeat¬
edly delayed paying out this
money bemuse it was unhap¬
py with Russian action to cut
its budget deficit.

Mr Camdessus warmly wel¬
comed the budget package
unveiled in Moscow on Tues¬
day which promised large
spending cuts. He also praised
Russia* central bank for its
swift reaction to the attack on
the rouble on Wednesday
when it trebled interest rates
to 150 percent

However, Oleg Vyugin, dep¬
uty finance minister, under¬
mined the positive impact of
the IMPS pronouncements,
saying that the $670 million
would not be enough to
stabilise Russia's financial sit¬
uation. He hinted that more
money would be needed, re¬
marks that fuelled speculation
that international financial in¬
stitutions or even Western
governments might be called
upon to put together a larger
rescue package.

Three leading Russian in¬
vestors, who requested a meet¬
ing with Viktor Khristenko
yesterday, emerged with the
impression that Russia was
trying to arrange a large
package of extra financial
assistance. Bill Browder, man¬
aging director of Hermitage
Capital Management, said:
“Clearly there are conversa¬
tions taking place between
Russia and Western sources of

finance." M Camdessus said
yesterday that there had been
no discussions about IMF sup¬
port beyond the $670 million.
He said: “We have not started
discussing anything of this
kind and I have no reason to
think that such a need exists."

Nevertheless, the markets
owed the restoration of some
stability yesterday to hopes
that a large financial package
is on the horizon. Figures of $5
and $10 billion were common¬
ly cited.

The Russian central bank
said it had succeeded in rever¬
sing what it called the “psych¬
osis" in the foreign exchange
market on Tuesday and Wed¬
nesday and that it had even
been able to buy dollars to
replenish its gold and foreign
currency reserves yesterday.
On Wednesday, it said that it
held $14 billion in reserves. By
yesterday, that figure had
risen to $143 billion.

Nervousness nevertheless
remains. Standard & Poor’s,
the international credit rating
agency, said it was reviewing
Russia's BB-minus long-term
foreign currency rating for a
possible downgrade because
of “intensifying fiscal and debt
service pressures".

More positive still was
Fleming UCB Capital, the
Moscow arm of Robert Flem¬
ing. the merchant bank, which
yesterday upgraded its recom¬
mended exposure to Russian
equities from neutral to slight¬
ly overweight in its global
emerging markets portfolio. It
said that Russia's fiscal prob¬
lem had been much exaggerat¬
ed and that it was confident of
Western financial support,
whether private or public.

Hinchliffe stirs

RUSSIA'S battered financial
markets stabilised yesterday
as the International Mone¬
tary Fund hinted that it
would make a $670 million
(£410 million) loan available
within the next few days.

Russia’s main stock market
index closed up by 6.14 per cent
yesterday, so recouping half its
losses on Wednesday. The rou¬
ble, backed by punitive interest
rates of 150 per cent, finned to
6.1490 to the dollar from 6.1750.
Michel Camdessus, IMF

Hillsdown
agrees to
Unigate in
principle

THE board of Hillsdown
Holdings, the food pro¬
ducer, has agreed in prin¬
ciple to recommend that
shareholders accept the
£1.6 billion bid from Uni¬
gate, the rival best known
for its diary products.

Yesterday Unigate for¬
mally told investors that it
had offered 217p a share
for Hillsdown. foe chilled
foods and biscuits busi¬
ness that also encom¬
passes Fairview Homes
and ‘ Christie Tyler, foe
furniture-maker.

Both sides were locked
in discussions at Hills-
down's headquarters yes¬
terday. It is thought that
there is agreement over the
217p price, but the struc¬
ture of the deaL and
whether payment will be
made in cash or shares, is
holding up finalisation.

Earlier in foe year
Unigate had an informal
offer of 207p rejected. Its
primary. interest is in
Hfllsdwvn’s drilled food
operations. When those
negotiations faltered, how¬
ever, Unigate decided to
launch an ail-out bid.

Hillsdown shares rose
8pto206 1 xp. Unigate stock
fefl 16pto636 , zp.

Curtain down, page 33

RESIDENTS of Knoydart, the
West of Scotland estate recent¬
ly taken over by Stephen
Hinchliffe, are to protest about
the former Facia chief's own¬
ership of the estate at the
annual general meeting of the
Bank of Scotland today (Jason
Niss£ writes).

The bank has lent £1.4 mil¬
lion to Knoydart Peninsular,
the company that owns the
estate and that was taken over

by Mr Hinchliffe and his
associate. Christopher Harri¬
son, two months ago. Both
face a Serious Fraud Office
inquiry into the collapse in
1996 of Facia, the shoe retailer.

Since the takeover, Mr
Hinchliffe has dismissed Ian
Robertson, foe estate manag¬
er. who has not been paid for
two years. Residents of the
eastate held a meeting with
Mr Hinchliffe earlier this

Model Naomi Campbell with designer Tommy Hilfiger. The Hilfiger house is suing Tesco

Hilfiger
to sue
Tesco
over
‘fakes’

By Fraser Nelson

TOMMY HILFIGER. foe US
fashion house, is to sue Tesco,
claimin g the supermarket has
been selling fake versions of
its branded dofoes.

It claims to have discovered a
“substantial" amount of “axm-
teifeir dolhing which Tesco
bought in the US to cut out the
official UK Hilfiger supplier.

Tesco confirmed it has been
using foe grey market —
distributors outside tire UK
which are not authorised by
tire manufacturer — to tray
Hilfiger dothes, bnt has de¬
nied selling any fakes.

It said yesterday. “This is
complete rubbish. What
Hilfiger are trying to do is put
up a smokescreen to conceal
foe real issue of their selective
distribution network.”

Since Easter, agents acting
for Hilfiger have trawled 25
Tesco stores to see if it is
selling any counterfeit stock.

Fred Gehring, chief execu¬
tive of Tommy Hilfiger
Europe, said: “Tommy
Hilfiger is a globally respect¬
ed brand and we owe it to all
our consumers that whenever
they buy our merchandise
they can be sure it is genuine.”

Tesco is one of the many
UK retailers who are refused
permission to sell brands
from some retail companies.

By using the frilly legal grey
market, it has bought cheap
stock from willing sellers in
the US and elsewhere.

This is the seventh time Tesco
has gone overseas to boy
branded goods it could not
secure from UK suppliers. It
recently bought £13 million
worth of football shirts and
tracksuits in preparation for the
World Cup. It intends to sell
Umbra football shirts at E33
compared with £45 on the high
street

protest

month and afterward passed a
vote of no confidence in him.

Mr Robertson and up to
four other Knoydart residents
are to leaflet outride today's
meeting and raise questions
about foe bank's involvement
with Knoydart. The bank,
which has declined to discuss
its loans, wanted its AGM to
celebrate foe career of its
longstanding Governor. Sir
Bruce Panullo, who is retiring.

SE cuts trading hours

THE London Stock Exchange
plans to reverse foe trend to a
global 24-hour market by
opening half an hour later
each morning, but it has run
into a barrage of criticism
from brokers serving private
investors, who want trading
hours to be longer (Graham
Searjeant writes).

The change to a 9 o'clock
start, due to begin on July 20,
is part of a package of mea¬

sures to overcome teething
p roble ms with the exchange's
SETS automatic trading order
book. Not enough institutional
investors were placing orders
or trading at each end of the
day to guarantee keen prices.

The exchange hopes to get
round foe afternoon lull by
persuading Liffe, the deriva¬
tives exchange, to stay open
until its own 430pm dose.

Angela Knight, director of

the retail brokers’ voice
APCIMS, said that starting
later was a retrograde step
and that trading hours should
be extended, at least to Sam
until 5pm.

Bard ays Stockbrokers, one
of the biggest retail firms, said
its busiest time of the week
was usually at 8.30 on Mon¬
day morning.

Commentary, page 31

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‘Bullying’
Intel faces

anti-trust

charges

From Tunxu Varadaraian

IN NEW YORK

THE FEDERAL Trade Com¬
mission (FTC) is gearing up
for a big anti-trust lawsuit
against Intel Corporation, in
which it will charge the com¬
pany with abusing its position
as the predominant maker of
microprocessor chips.

The suit will allege also that
Intel has “bullied” some com¬
puter manufacturers with
whom it is in dispute over
patents by withholding techni¬
cal information about its
chips. Without this data, the
companies have been unable
to design new products.

The FTC suit would open up
a second front in foe “comput¬
er wars” as the commission is
already locked in battle with
Microsoft Intel's processors
and Microsoft’s operating sys¬
tems run 90 per cent of
personal computers on foe
market, and give rise to foe
word “Winter, an ironic ne¬
ologism in the industry.

The charges are expected to
be brought against Intel in foe
next two weeks. Lawyers for
foe FTC suggest the commis¬
sion may file fresh charges
later this year, accusing it of
using predatory pricing and
contract provisions to cement
its position. The tenor of the
charges is foe same as the
genera! complaints filed
against Microsoft last week.

Chuck Mulloy, a spokes¬
man for Intel sakk “We are co¬
operating with foe commiss¬
ion fully. We are very sensitive
■about anti-trust enforcement,
and at the end of the day we
believe they will determine
that we bahaved lawfully.”

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30 BUSINESS NEWS

Hairshirt is
paying off,
says United
Utilities

By Christine Buckley, industrial correspondent

THE TIMES FRIDAY MAY 291998

UNITED UTILITIES yester¬
day said the hairshirt strategy
of curbing dividend payments
and focusing on cost cutting
that it began last year was
beginning to yield results.

The North West Water and
Norweb group's pre-tax profits
for the year to March 31
increased 3.7 per cent to £460.5
million — at the higher end of
market expectations. Derek
Green, chief executive, said the
figures marked the first fruits
of tighter financial control be-

South West
Water flags
new name

By Our Industrial
Correspondent

SOUTH WEST Water yes¬
terday sought to transform
itself with a name change
and a shake-up of its corpo¬
rate structure, it intends to
call itself Pennon Group —
an old English name for a
military flag — and will
split its regulated and non-
regulated operations into
separate divisions.

South West said it want¬
ed a name for the new hold¬
ing company that would
reflect the fact that by 2000
it expected half its turnover
to come from non-reg trial¬
ed businesses such as waste
management rather than
water and sewerage. Us
non-regulated operations
will trade under the name
of Viridor. Ken HilL fi¬
nance director, said the
division of South West's
operations would also
make clear where profits
came from.

The company saw pre¬
tax profits for the year to
March 31 drop from £133
million to £107 million
through a combination of
restructuring costs and a
£7J million loss on asset
sales compared with a £19.2
million profit on sales in
the previous year. Underly¬
ing profits rose 3 per cent to
£121 million.

However, South West in¬
creased its total dividend
by more than expected with
an H.7 per cent rise to 41p. It
also offered an enhanced
scrip alternative of 30p. Hie
final payment of 27.Sp is
due on August 17.

ginning to show through. Last
year Mr Green declared that
llnited would abandon the
ambitious plans of its previous
management and focus on its

core activities. He pledged to
curb dividend payments, dis¬
mantling a previous promise
of high dividend growth.

Bob Ferguson, the finance
director, also said that United
would not make any more
projections on growth the
company might achieve.

The company delivered its
first set of results after the
departure of its chairman Sir
Desmond Pitcher. Sir Des¬
mond retired early at the end
of March, the final casualty of
boardroom upheavals he in¬
stigated with the dismissal of
Brian Staples, the then chief
executive, last July.

United denied that the com¬
pany paid Sir Desmond a £1
million package to go early |
although his severance is like¬
ly to be substantial when it is
revealed in the annual report.
On top of Sir Desmond’s sev¬
erance will be cash paid to
Derek Lewis, a consultant em¬
ployed by the company in a
controversial £3 million deal.
Mr Lewis’s company was dis¬
missed in March after two
years of a five-year agreement

Mr Lewis had been in charge
of Vertex, the billing and
facilities management subsid¬
iary of United. Mr Ferguson
admitted that United had over¬
played the potential of Vertex.
The company had hoped that it
would drum up considerable

outside contracts but it had
delivered only a handful.

United raised its dividend
9.7 per rent to 40.8p for die
year, including an enhance¬
ment of 1.36pa share. This will
accrue because the final divi¬
dend will not be paid until
April 6 — after the Govern¬
ment has abolished advanced
corporation tax. This will save
United £38 million.

Tempus. page 32

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Good read: Bryan Bedson, chief executive of Wyndeham Press, the contract printer,
who reported pre-tax profits of £10.2 million (£7.8 million) in the year to March 31.
Earnings per share were 19p (152p) and the total dividend rises from 5.1p to 6.2p

EMI upbeat in final report

By Alasdair Murray, economics correspondent

THE European Monetary In¬
stitute yesterday gave an up¬
beat assessment of the
prospects for the launch of the
single currency, predicting
that inflation will remain
under control and European
growth rates will continue to
pick up through the rest of this
year.

In its last annual report
before formally becoming the

new European Central Bank
next week, the EMI said it
believed the Continental Euro¬
pean recovery was “gathering
pare" but with few immediate
inflationaiy threats looming.

Wim Duisenberg. president
of the Institute and ECB
president elect, said there was
only limited evidence of the
crisis in Asia spilling over into
European markets.

The EMI noted a “de facto”
common interest rate policy
was emerging but offered no
guidance as to the level at
which it expected interest rate
convergence to occur.

Mr Duisenberg. however,
gave warning that the eleven
founder members of EMU
still needed to implement
more labour market reforms
to help tackle unemployment

UK export
orders
slump to
15-year
low point

By Alasdair Murray

ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT

EXPORT orders slumped to a
15-year low in May. providing
dear evidence that the manu¬
facturing sector remains
mired in recession despite a
recent fail in the value of the
pound.

Total manufacturing order
books also declined at the
sharpest rate for nearly two
years, according ro the Con¬
federation of British Industry
industrial trends survey
published yesterday.

The gloomy data was seized
upon by manufacturing union
leaders who predicted up to
200,000 job losses. Ken Jack-
son. secret ary-general of the
AEEU. said:' “The Bank of
England must end its vendetta
against manufacturers and
give a dear indication that
rates have peaked."

The CBI said the survey
showed that the pound's slide
from a seven-year high had
brought no relief to Britain's
hard-pressed exporters. The
pound averaged DM2.93 dur¬
ing the survey period com¬
pared with DM3.07 in April.

Output expectations have
also weakened, with manufac¬
turers predicting zero growth
in the next four months — the
weakest level since 1992. There
was good news, however, on
inflation because prices expec¬
tations are at a record low.

The weak data was also
reflected in the CBl's latest
economic forecast, which pre¬
dicted export volume growth
will fall to 1.4 per cent this
year, compared with a previ¬
ous forecast of 3 per cent
The poor export perfor¬
mance will mean GDP growth
slowing to 1.6 per cent by the
end of this year. A pickup in
manufacturing next year
should help the economy to
record an average of 2.1* per
cent growth in 1999 and the
CBI forecasts a “soft landing”
for the economy as a whole.

Kate Barker, chief economic
adviser to the CBI. predicted
that the Bank of England will
cut interest rales by a quarter
point towards the end of this
year with rates falling to 625
per cent by the end of 1999.
Inflation will remain largely
on target in the period.

LIG braced for trouble over Italian closure

By Paul Durman

LONDON international Group, the
Durex condoms and rubber gloves
group, has built up stocks of condoms
in Italy ahead of a battle with the
Communist-controlled Bologna city
council.

The group said it was ready for
trouble with the closure of its ftalian
factory on the outskirts of Bologna,

which will cause the loss of 180 jobs. In
setting aside £15 million to cover the
costs of closing die Casalecchio plant
and reorganising its southern Euro¬
pean business, Nick Hodges, chief
executive, said LIG had made “lull
provision for the worst possible
scenario".

LIG has previously closed a large
manufacturing plant in Chingford,
Essex, and another in America as part

of a five-year recovery plan. A £10J
million build up of stocks was the main
reason LJG's operating cashflow fell by
almost 30 per cent to £35.1 million in
the year to March 31. Besides the
Italian problem. LIG also built up
stocks in preparation for the launch of
Durex in America and a new range of
medical examination gloves.

Ignoring a £12 million loss on the
recent sale of Cook Bates, an American

manicure tools business. LIG in¬
creased annual pre-tax profits by 14.6
per cent to £40.8 million.

LIG remains confident of its ability
to deliver double digit growth of profit
and earnings per share.

A final dividend of 2.4p. payable as a
foreign income dividend, will increase
the total payout by 14.3 per cent to 32p
a share.

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Safeway to dose two
Ulster supermarkets

SAFEWAY is to dose two supermarkets in Northern Ireland
with the loss of almost 200jobs. less than a year after moving
into the Province. It is to shut stores in Londonderry and
Portadown. Co Aimagh. on Saturday. However, Safeway
yesterday insisted that its commitment to Northern Ireland
remained and millions of pounds was being spent oil new
stores and upgrading existing outlets.

The Londonderry store was being shut because a recent
planning decision would fundamentally change existing '
trading patterns and adversely • affect business. The
Portadown store was dosing because the company had been
unable ro turn around a loss-raaking operation.

ING hit by Asian crisis

ING BARINGS lost 480 million guilders (£145 miilkm)
during the first three months of 1998 because of financial arid
political turmoil in Asia. The Dutch financial group has
made an additional provision of F1400 million against the .
losses, according to figures published yesterday. In spite of its ■
Asian woes, the ING Group posted an 862 per cent leap-in -;
net profits to F11.9 billion, thanks largely to the first time
inclusion of BBL, the tank it recently acquired. :l

Barbie wins Bluebird

GUINNESS PEAT GROUP (GPG) is to accept the increased i
£48.5 million. 1165p a share, bid by Mattel for BluebirdTays,
Britain's last significant independent toy manufacturer. GPG
said h would allow its own offer to lapse: Before laundnng a
bid on January 19. GPG held a stake of nearly 23 per cent in -
Bluebird. GPG shares were unchanged at '31 Hz pr, and ,.
Bluebird's at JIS^p. Mattel, the maker or Barbie dolls, made /
a counter-bid after Bluebird rejected CPC's initial approach.-

PhoneLink shares halted

SHARES in PhoneLink were suspended at47 1 2p > after foiling
from 55p. yesterday after the company said it was in talks
over a reverse takeover. PhoneLink said it intended to take
over Active Roever Travel. Seaforths Travel and aid
associated electronic trading software product which are
businesses and assets connected with Reggeborgh.
Reggeborgh holds an interest of 16.6 per cent in PhoneLihk.
so any transaction would be classified as a reverse takeover.

Asia blunts Christie’s

CHRISTIE’S INTERNATIONAL, the auction house, gave
warning yesterday of lower sales in the first half caused by
economic problems in Asia and the timing of summer sales.

Lord Hindlip, the chairman, told the annual meeting that foe
outlook for the full year was encouraging thanks to two big
consignments for auction, from the Wentworth CoDectioh t
and a private collection of important 19th and 20th-century
pictures. The shares were unchanged at 388p.'

Helical Bar lets City site

HELICAL BAR is to pre-let a new 260.000 sq ft office
development to Slaughter & May. the corporate law firm, ina
£150 million deal which forms part of its development of two.
sites in the City of London. The agreed rent is just under £40
per sq ft on the office areas, on a lease of 25 years and; 6 i-V
months. The development sites are Northampton Hall, in
Chi swell Street and City & Islington College, in Bunhill Row.
Helical Bar shares rose 6p to 658'ap. = -

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Switzerland Fr 255

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C harged with recom¬
mending a level for the
new national minimum
wage. George Bain and the Low
Pay Commission embarked on
serious research. They toured the
country, attending 100 meetings
in order to ascertain local pay
levels. They ploughed through
566 written submissions. Then,
remarkably, they did what every¬
one had been expecting for
months and produced a figure of
£3.60 an hour.

Minimum wage won’t cater for all

tolerate and the least that the
unions might grudgingly accept.
George Bain deserves credit for
going through the necessary
public relations exercise without
being deflected from his purpose.

But when the Government
formally accepts his recom¬
mendation. as it no doubt grate¬
fully will, the real horse trading
will begin. For while Professor
Bain has been, adamant through¬
out the exercise that what he
wanted was a flat rate minimum
wage, the only exceptions to
apply to young workers, com¬
panies are preparing to haggle
over just what a minimum wage
is in practice. On the interpreta¬
tion could depend the futures of
major sectors of business and
many thousands of jobs.

The catering aria clothing in¬
dustries in particular wflj be
anxious to persuade the Govem-
. mem that George Bain's ideal of
one hourly rate for all needs

Dawson
puts the
sale sign

refinement. Something of a pur¬
ist, he has ruled out such
refinements as regional
weightings, although retailers,
for instance, made a strong plea
for different local norms to be
recognised. His refusal to budge
on this has been an important
factor in ensuring that the nat¬
ional minimum nad to be set
relatively low.

But while £3.60 is not likely to
cause problems for most employ¬
ers, in the real world, wage
packets are rarely what they
superficially seem. Marks &
Spencer, for instance, pays the
bulk of its full-time shop staff a
basic rate of £4.75 an hour. Yet if
annual bonuses, non contribu¬
tory pension schemes and other
benefits are thrown into the
equation, a clever human re¬
sources expert can easily argue
that the lucky employee is being
rewarded at the rate of £6.35.

Since M&S is already well
ahead of the minimum, it is
absolved from having to argue
that it is not merely the hourly
wage rate which should be
considered, but its suppliers in
what is left of the UK clothing
industry will be trying to make
just such a case. In order to
compete with overseas manufac¬
turers. many companies opt to

COMMENTARY

by our City Editor

pay a low base wage and then
reward production. Paying by
piece work does not condemn a
factory as a swear shop, merely
as an organisation keen to re¬
ward the increased productivity
which Tony Blair and Gordon
Brown are demanding of all
good citizens.

Taking the average wage from
such a factory and converting it
into an hourly rate might well
produce a figure higher than the
national minimum wage. Yet it is
doubtful George Bain would
countenance such a creative atti¬
tude towards his flat rate.

There are also fears of a
similarly inflexible attitude to¬
wards the catering industry.
Employers would like to argue
that provision of uniforms and
meals are valuable parts of the
remuneration package, a case
which would carry tittle weight
with staff. But what of tips? It
might not please all the waiting
staff but if the Low Pay Com¬
mission could ensure that service

charges were condensed into
bills and thus into wage rates,
consumers would have good
cause to laud George Bain.

Unigate is the best
bet for Hillsdown

H aving acknowledged
that Hillsdown had to be
dismembered. Sir John
Nott would be kinder to himself
and shareholders to allow
Unigate to undertake the butch¬
ery. A price of 217p a share
should be sufficiently face-saving
to allow Sir John to bow out from
a role in which he never seemed
truly comfortable. To quit gov¬
ernment and run Lazarus is one
thing but to move on to a career
in poultry and upholstery is
hardly fitting for a former de¬
fence minister.

Ian Martin and Ross Buck-
land should be much more at
home assimilating appetising
bits of Hillsdown into Unigate. Lf

they have already identified sav¬
ings of £20 million a year to be
had from integrating the food
operations, there are likely to be
more to come once the extra
muscle is applied to the pressure
points of customers such as
Tesco. Unigate is already the
biggest supplier to the grocer
but, despite much talk of partner¬
ship. relationships between re¬
tailer and food manufacturer still
have an undercurrent of tension,
bordering on outright warfare.
Analysts are looking cautiously
at the deal, but Hillsdown is one
of those companies where the
component parts are worth more
than the whole and Uni gate is
well placed to extract the value.
Venture capitalists are already
lining up to help rid Unigate of
some of the bits it may not want
particularly the furnishing side,
although housebuilding could
prove harder to offload. Sir
John’s decision to demerge
rather than self the business may
have been influenced by a short¬

age of ready takers. There are
tasty morsels within the
Hillsdown portfolio crying out
for a touch of the marketing
techniques that Martin honed in
his GrandMet career just think
of Typhoo. Then start applying
Uni gate’s Shape brand to the
products of some of Hiflsdown’S
food engineering and savour the
flavour of increased profits.

Burlington Bertie
v the global market

L ast October, the London
Stock Exchange brought in
automatic trading on an
order book for FTSE-100 com¬
panies to placate uncomprehend¬
ing regulators and investment
bankers trading derivatives.
After a six-month_ review that
cannot have made happy read¬
ing. the exchange now has
another public relations disaster
on its hands, trying its best to
debug the SETS system.

The trouble has always been
that many fund managers do not
like the uncertainty or the order
book. One escape route is to
trade the old way. The other is to
avoid committing yourself early,
until the marker’s tone is clear,
and to avoid being left hanging

at the end of trading. The old
market-makers were paid to take
care of these difficulties.

Private investors are told that
trading margins are cheaper.
They are more likely to notice
that share prices are more vol¬
atile and they cannot be told the
share index at breakfast.

Some solutions are welcome.
FTom next month, both small
and big orders will be allowed on
SETS to boost liquidity.

Keeping the whole exchange
dosed between 8.30 and 9am,
including non-SETS trade in
smaller stocks, is nonsensical.
Many private investors trade
then and fond managers are just
as likely to hold back until 930.

London’s claim to be Europe’s
exchange looks thin if it does nor
open until 10am continental
time. Only the City's favourite
Aunt Sally could respond to the
24-hour global market by shrink¬
ing to 7 hours 30 minutes.

The bad news bear

AMID chaos, there is optimism.
India and Pakistan are explod¬
ing nuclear bombs, the markets
of the Far East are collapsing
and Russia is in turmoil. Ameri¬
can and European banks stand
dangerously exposed to huge
risk on their derivatives port¬
folios. Tony Dye of fund man¬
agers PDFM reckons that it is a
50/50 chance that this is the cue
for the UK stock market crash.
The giant bear of investment
management is hopeful.

up over
Pringle

By Fraser Nelson

PRINGLE SWEATERS,
one of Scotland^ bat-
known brands, was placed
on the international auc¬
tion block yesterday after
Dawson International, the
textiles group, said it is
seeking a takeover bid.

The company, in which
the shares have lost 30 per
cent of their value this
year, warned the market
that trouble in the US and
Asia will wipe out almost
all of its profits after an
expected £11 million
charge in exceptionals.

Dawson's main prob¬
lems have come from the
US where its JE Morgan
and Duofold divisions
have failed to sell substan¬
tial amounts of thermal
and sports underwear.

Peter Forrest, chief exec¬
utive. said that as a result.
Dawson would be forced
to make “substantial'’ job
cuts among its 3300 UK
manufacturing staff.

He said: “The strength
of sterling has knocked us
sideways. We now have a
duty to onr shareholders to
consider any offers."

Mr Forrest said the com¬
pany would make “only a
modest profir this year,
against the £123 million
returned last time.

City analysts said an
offer from the US — where
Dawson generates a third
of its sales — is likiey.

Shares in Dawson dosed
13 per cent lower at 4Sbp
yesterday, valuing the com¬
pany at £96 milli on.

Unions, meanwhile,
voiced alarm over the an¬
nouncement and the previ¬
ous day's move by the
Sweater Shop to call in
receivers.

Bill Speirs, general sec¬
retary of the Scottish TUC,
said: “It is a very worrying
situation and we are obvi¬
ously concerned about the
future of the industry. We
wifi be having a meeting
with the textile unions to
come up with an assess¬
ment of where the industry
stands at the moment"

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Dick Brown said the deal completed in 18 days, catapulted C&W “into a leading role in the world league of Internet and data traffic carriers*’

C&W lifts MCI merger hopes
through £385m Internet deal

By Raymond Snoddy
MEDIA EDITOR

CABLE & WIRELESS, the
international telecommunica¬
tions group, yesterday removed
one of the obstacles to the
WorldCom-MCI merger by
paying £385 million for MCl's
internet backbone service.

The deal, completed in 18
days induding secret appear¬
ances before the US Justice
Department and European

Commission officials, will give
C&W a “premier" Internet
business in the fastest-grow¬
ing sector of the US telecom¬
munications market

C&W is paying three times
revenues for a busines produc¬
ing modest profits at the
moment — a lower multiple
than Internet businesses have
been selling for in the US.

Dick Brown. C&W chief exec¬
utive, said yesterday: “We think
we are getting this at great value

because MCI had to sell it"
The overlap between the
Internet businesses of World¬
Com and MCI has been cited
as a main regulatory obstacle
to the merger.

Ben Roberts, the MCI chair¬
man, said yesterday that by
divesting the Internet backbone
— the national networks op¬
posed to its Internet retail
business — MCI had addressed
anti-trust concerns.

As a 20 per cent shareholder

in MCI, BT would almost
certainly have been offered the
Internet business but there is
no sign that BT was a bidder.

Mr Brown said yesterday
the deal “catapults us into a
leading role in the world
league of Internet and data
traffic carriers’*.

Under the deal C&W will
acquire all of its 22 domestic
nodes, or hubs, and 15,000
local interconnection ports
and will take on more than

Dialog makes progress on costs

By Our City Staff

DIALOG CORPORATION,
the company created by the
the merger between the
MAID and Knight-Ridder in¬
formation businesses, says it
is on course to beat the target
of saving $35 million (£213
million) a year on costs.

The shares, however, fell
from mhp to I51p after Dia¬
log yesterday reported a £1.8

million profit before tax in the
three months to March 31.
down from a previous £235
million. Earnings fell from
Up to Ip. Gross profits rose
from £43 million to £253
million but administrative
costs rose from £26 million to
E4.7 million and the interest
charge rises to £43 million
from a £62000 gain.

Michael Mander, chair¬
man, said: “The progress that
we have made during the first
quarter demonstrates that the
newly formed Dialog Corpo¬
ration has been successfully
established on a firm and
profitable footing, with a low¬
er cost base than initially
anticipated.’’

He said that he was confi¬

dent that "any further im¬
provement in revenues during
the remainder of the year will
impact positively on the
group's earnings”.

Dan Wagner, chief execu¬
tive. said: “We have brought
the business down to a cost
level where we can pay our
debt bills and stay profit¬
able."

1300 US and international
customers. There will also be
guaranteed revenue and traf¬
fic commitments from MCI
for two years plus a transition¬
al year. It wfl] take a lot of that
time to carve a separate C&W
network out of the existing
MCI infrastructure.

The MCI backbone busi¬
ness has assets of $100 million
(£60 million) and an
annualised estimated revenue
of $220 million for this year.

Mr Brown said yesterday
that if the business continued
to expand at its present 50 to
100 per cent a year he would
be happy to “reinvest the cash
for half a decade”.

He envisages using the net¬
work. which can handle si¬
multaneous voice and data, to
compete with traditional tele¬
phone operators with voice
services over the Internet for
the business market.

C&W closed yesterday at
675p, down 4p.C&W also an¬
nounced it had agreed to
increase its stake in Bezeq, the
Israeli telecoms company,
from 102 to 1275 per cent

Cassidy set for
battle against
Oliver rebels

By Jason Nissfe

DENIS CASSIDY, who re¬
signed as chairman of Liberty
after a campaign to oust him.
is set to face another battle to
remove him from his job, this
time as chairman of Oliver
Group, the shoe retailer.

Rebel shareholders speak¬
ing for 29.4 per cent of Oliver’s
shares are planning to call an
extraordinary general meet¬
ing to have Mr Cassidy and
Martin Watts, the managing
director, removed.

The move comes after the
defeat yesterday of plans by
Oliver to raise £5.7 million
through a placing of shares
with institutional investors.
Shareholders blocked the pro¬
posals despite Mr Cassidy
delaying a vote on the issue for
48 hours while he tried to
convince them of his case.

Mr Cassidy said the com¬
pany would be looking at
other ways to finance the
group, shares in which have
nearly halved in value over the
last year. He added that he
was amazed that the investors
wanted to oust him. as many

of them had voted for his re-
election as a director at the
group's annual meeting, last
month.

He also claimed that the
shareholder group — that
includes the Oliver family,
Peter Gyllenhammar. the
Swedish investor, and Ken
Bartle, the former head of
Stead & Simpson — was a
concert party, which is a
group of shareholders acting
as if they are one. If the Panel
on Takovers & Mergers ruled
the group was a concert party,
this would mean that none of
the investors would be able to
buy more than 03 per cent
without Che group having to
make a bid for Oliver.

The rebel investors are un¬
derstood to be about to ap¬
point Butterfield Securities as
their financial advisers for the
battle against Mr Cassidy.

Oliver is advised by
Dresdner Kleinwort Benson,
which is understood to be
increasingly unhappy about
the situation and is rumoured
to be about to resign.

Stakis leaps 61%
on hotel strength

By Adam Jontss

A STRONG performance by
its hotels division helped
Stakis, the leisure group, in¬
crease interim profits by 61 per
cent.

It also confirmed yesterday
that its non-executive chair¬
man. Richard Cole-Hamilton.
will step down on October I to
make way for Robert Smith,
the chief executive of Morgan
Grenfell Asset Management
who is currently deputy chair¬
man at Stakis.

Profit before tax and
exeeptionals for the six months
to March 29 was £35.6 million,
up from £221 million. Sales
rose 39 per cent to £181 million.

At its hotels. Stakis took
advantage of a 17 per cent
expansion in the number of
rooms available. It increased
its average room rate 102 per
cent to £60.48 and occupancy

climbed from 67.5 per cent to
73.7 per cent after successful
marketing. Casino profits
surged from £3.8 million to
£6.6 million.

David Michels, chief execu¬
tive, said current trading was
good in its casinos and
UvingWell health clubs, al¬
though the hotels were hit by
bad weather over Easter “Un¬
fortunately, the weather fore¬
casters got it right,”

He said that the construc¬
tion of new hotels was going to
plan, with one opening near
Belfast in July and another
due to open on the outskirts of
Glasgow in October.

Earnings per share rose 33
per cent to 3.78p. An interim
dividend of 125p per share, up
from 1.05p last year, will be
paid on September 3. Shares
rose 4p to 143p yesterday.

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32 MARKETS / ANALYSIS

THE TIMES FRIDAY MAY 291998

Stock Market Writer
of the Year

Calm returns to City as
international storm eases

A SENSE of normality re¬
turned to the Square Mile last
night after another volatile
performance had produced an
S8-point uimround in the eq¬
uity market.

Investors chose to hang on
for the ride following a steadi¬
er performance by Wall Street
and Asian markets overnight.
But early attempts at a rally
ran out of steam on publica¬
tion of the latest survey from
Che CBt showing export orders
way down and some of the
lowest prices on record.

“It may be good news for
interest rates and the bond
market, but dearly manufac¬
turing companies are finding
the going increasingly dim-
cult,*' said one leading broker.

An opening rally on Wall
Street helped reduce a fall of
almost 54 points in the FTSE
100 which closed 7.9 lower at
5,8623. Turnover was higher
than of late with 993 million
shares changing hands.

Unigate retreated I6p to
636b p after confirming it is in
bid talks with Hillsdown. 8p
better at 206^. If the bio
were to succeed, it would
scupper Hillsdown's propos¬
als to split its furniture and
food operations. Cily specula¬
tors are not ruling out the
possibility of Northern
Foods. 2p firmer at 2l5p.
throwing its hat into the ring.

In the meantime, the focus
of attention switched to other
companies in the food sector,
especially those suited to
break-up or disposal possibili¬
ties. Booker rose 12b p id
296p. as did Associated Brit¬
ish Foods 12bp better at 568p.

United Utilities was
marked 9bp higher to S28p
after profits came in at the top
end of expectations, while
Thames Water rose 30p to
990p as Panmure Cordon, the
broker, urged clients to switch
into the shares. The drop in
annual profits at South West
Water was sweetened by an
increase in the dividend and
enhanced scrip alternative.
The shares rose 4b p to 960b p.

Still responding to this
week's profits numbers,
Energis climbed 36p to 81 lp.
Morgan Stanley, the US secu¬
rities house rates the shares a
"strong buy” and says the
company should start break¬
ing even by the turn of the
century. It has also raised its
target price from 850p to E10.

I Sainsbury was 3 J « p Firmer
at 488*4 p by the dose after
SBC Warburg Dillon Read,
the broker, reiterated its
“strong buy" stance on the

Dawson Internationa], makers of Pringle sportswear, as
worn by Nick Faldo, is seeking a buyer after poor sales

shares. But rival Tesco fell 21p
to 539p with the group facing
court action from fashion
houses wishing to block the
company selling their expen¬
sive. branded clothes through
its shop at cheaper prices.

Fast growing Jarvis, which
includes the old British Rail
engineering operation, was up
45p to 773b p on turnover of
138 million shares. Word is

the company is due to embark
on a US roadshow in order to
attract institutional support

The buyers also came in for
PHkiagton. 5p better at I46p
ahead of results next week.

BAA Group- up 28p at 702p,
is set to become the latest
British company to join the
Morgan Stanley Capital Inter¬
national index. The index is
used by American fund man-

SUCK INVESTMENTS

FTSE 350 oil axpL
& production

FTSE alFshare •-• -L:;

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May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May

2£00

THE falling oil price has
been bad news for the oD
majors leaving them cold-
shouldered by die institu¬
tions while making the cost
of finding fresh supplies a
little prohibitive.

Yesterday it was the turn
of the oil minnows to pile
on the agony. Desire Petro¬
leum plunged 177*2 p to
260p. It has been looking
for oil in the North Falk-
lands Basin and was en¬
couraged by the findings of
neighbour Amerada Hess.
Its share price responded
with a leap of 175 *2 p to 445p
and brokers talking of as¬
sets of more than £40 a

share. It whetted the appe¬
tites of private investors
who piled in hoping for
quick riches. Then came the
news that die find by
Amerada Hess was not
commercially viable leav¬
ing them with a sizeable
trading losses.

Greenwich Resources
has a 13 per cent stake in
Desire and fell 7ti p to 28*2p
with another shareholder,
Westmount Energy, down
45p at 182 *2 p. Other South
Atlantic players indude
Falkland Islands down 21p
at I79p, and Cambridge
Mineral Resources, bp
cheaper at I24p.

agers looking to invest abroad
and inclusion as a constituent
attracts institutional support.
SBC Warburg and Dresdner
Kleinwort Benson both rate
the shares a “buy” after this
week's profits news.

Halifax, which joins the
Morgan Stanley index on
Monday, came in for profit-
taking losing 27p at 896p.

The for sale sign has gone
up at Dawson International
7*2p lower at 48*ap. The
Pringle clothing group gave
warning that sales have been
so bad in its key markets it
may be forced to find a buyer
for the business, brokers had
been looking for pre-tax prof¬
its of around £17 million for
the current year but by the
company's own admission
profits will be modest

It was the first day or
dealings for Cily North fol¬
lowing a placing of shares at
145p. The property developer
opened at I47*2p and touched
a peak of 166 * 2 p before dosing
at 158*2 p. A total of 1.05 million
shares changed hands.

Shares in Phonelink were
suspended 7*2 p lower at 47*2 p
pending the outcome of talks
that could result in a reverse
takeover by some of its biggest
shareholders.

Powrrscreen remained in
freefall dropping a further 13p
to 97*ap after warning of
losses of £65 million earlier
this week following the discov¬
ery of financial irregularities
at one of its subsidiaries.

Hall Engineering also lost
another 23p at 177p in the
wake of this week's trading
update that warned the out¬
come for the year would fall
materially below expectations.

□ GILT-EDGED: Early
losses were dawed back on the
back of that subdued CBI
survey. Dealers said the re¬
port showing prices at their
lowest levels on record helped
soothe any remaining fears
that the Bank of England
Monetary Policy Committee
may come under further pres¬
sure to raise interest rates.

In the futures pit the June
series of the long gilt closed
£0.02 down at £108.99, while
among conventional issues
Treasury 725 per cent 2007
finished £0.06 upatEI10.69.

□ NEW YORK: Technology
shares led the market higher
in morning trading. By mid¬
day the Dow Jones industrial
average was up 13.95 points at
8,95032.

The liffe Options quoted
are Wednesday's prices.

MAJORINOICES;

.Amsterdam:

AEX index_ ...

Sydney:

- 118866 HU 5)

AO ..

Frankfort

Singapore:

Brussels:

Paris:

CAC-4G ..

Zurich:

SKA On .

London:

FT V).

FTSE 100_

5862J (-7.9)

FTSE.TM._-. .

FTSE Eunxop 100_

- 2806.96 (-4.46)

FTSE AU-s hare_

- 2798j68(-1-52J

FTSE Non Flnandals _

. 2845-61 (-0.9S)

FTSE Fixed Inierest

142.96 (-HL24)

FTSE Gom Secs __

105.00 (-0X11)

German Mark ___—

28956 KL0095)

Eschance index_

lOT-3 (-QJ9

Bonk or England orndni close (4pm)

E:ECU __ -

-- 1.4736

RFI-162.6 Apr (4-0%) Jan 1987=100

RPfX_160.4 Apr (3.0KI Jan 1987=100

1 AiEC^BNfi^SUES

Ambient Media

90 + 1

Amblshus Pub Co

235

Ascot B

61

BTK Red prf B

37':

Barons mead ver 2

87 1 :

Captain OM Watts (4) 5'.-

City North Group

158':

Desire Petroleum

260 -117'i

Dimension Res Wrts

10

Dimension Resources 25', - 1

Do warrants

Ift

Elfleretreet Dwng ver 95

Eskmuir Properties

236 -5

GRE Red Prf B

20

Kamleys B

25

ICM Computer

294', + I9>>

Inter-Alliance

400

jwe Telecom

161 ft <- 14

Lon rbo Africa

72‘, - I

Maul an

279': - ft

Pennine Dwngvcr

100

Taiwan IT GDR

140

Taylor & Francis

237ft

Thomson Trawl

187 - 3ft

Ask Central n/p (350)

82ft - 2ft

Guinness Ptn/p(20]

13

John Lusty n/p (10)

Ift ...

Magnum Pwr n/p (121 3 1 ,

Nrd Ang Ed n/p (350

35

Proteus inti n/p (45)

2

Silver Shield n/p (l)

ft

fiN&grr

RISES:

Jarvis. 773'sp(+45p)

Energis.811p(+36p)

Psion.227^(4-100)

Booker.296p (+12ft$i)

BAA. 702p(+28p)

Somerfieki.387'jp (-HZp)

FALLS:

Dialog.151p (-20'jp)

Powerscreen.97'jp (- 1 3pj

Hall Eng.177p(-23p)

Micro Focus. 575p (-25p)

Ro Tinto. 755p[-32p]

Shield Diag.545p (-22'sp)

Tesco. 539p (-21p)

Closing Prices Page 37

UFFE

COCOA

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Jun 98 -

92-500

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91490

92-500

9241

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91780

93200

91740

92.790

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96-385

96390

96J60

96-385

36485

Previous open interest 3400168

Sep 98 ..

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962S0

9623J

96235

32485

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Jun 98 ..

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952JI0

94.970

94.990

40539

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PM: S294B0

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S&P Composite__ 10942b (+203)

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T

T EMPUS

LIG bouncing back

THE CLOSURE of London international
Group's Italian condom factory marks the
final stage of the rubber company’s rehabili¬
tation. In recognition. LIG’s shares yesterday
rose almost S per cent to a new high of 212'z p,
a level not seen since 1993.

Although the Bologna factory employs only
ISO. UG is planning’ for reorganisation costs
of up to £15 million. But after closing its oldest
and smallest plant. LIG will be able to replace
the lost production at half the price.

Stock-building in preparation for the al¬
most inevitable strike is one reason why LIG's
operating cashflow fell sharply, in stark
contrast to the I2J per cent rise in operating
profits to £46.7 million. The rise in stocks
reflects other important moves, principally
the launch of Durex in the United States,
where LIG has previously spread its market¬

ing efforts across six brands. After a fall. LIG
is expecting Durex to lift its market share
from 20 to 25 per cent within three years.

The group has also stocked up in readiness
for Regent's launch of new Skinsense medical
examination gloves, powder-free to avoid
allergy problems. Regent’s Biogel surgical
glove has already claimed market leadership
ahead of Johnson & Johnson.

In the UK. Durex's polyurethane Avann
condom has managed to take II per cent of the
market by value despite costing three tunes as
much as traditional latex condoms. LIG
clearly expects great things from Avanti as it
is extended worldwide.

The shares now trade at about 21-22 times
forecast earnings. With strong growth expect-
ed to produce double-digit advances m profits
and earnings, that looks decent value.

Stakis

STAKIS turned in an excel¬
lent set of interims yesterday,
with a useful contribution
from the new LivingWell
health dub business bolster¬
ing the expected strung per¬
formances from hotels and
casinos.

The hotels division, re¬
sponsible for £43.8 million of
the group's £52 million of
profits, enjoyed a triple bene¬
fit of a 17 per cent increase in
room numbers, a 9 per cent
rise in the occupancy rate (to
73.7 per cent) and a 10 per
cent rise in the average room
rate- Combined, this pro¬
duced a 39 per cent improve¬
ment In profits.

The casinos arm did even
better, profits climbing 77
per cent to £6.6 million
thanks to increased atten¬
dances. higher food and
drink sales and improved
cost control. The Maybury

Casino, which opened in
Edinburgh six months ago,
had attracted 14.000 mem¬
bers by the end of March.
This success has encouraged
Stakis to develop more simt-
larly-large casinos.

Stakis intends to add three
new four-star hotels every
year, but it will be hard-
pushed to sustain the recent
improvements in occupancy

and room rates. Higher
gaming duty is also set to
cost £12 million a year.

Having risen to !43p from
a 9Ip low in January, the
shares now trade on about
185 times forecast earnings.
Although LivingWell still
has plenty of scope to im¬
prove on its £1-6 million
contribution, that looks too
high to chase.

A PLEASANT BREAK

V- • f- —‘ “I;""
' *'V: 5. ,-i. - - - '

Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jen Feb Mar Apr May

United Utilities

UNITED UTILITIES is
transforming itself from the
company mat last year
lurched from one boardroom
crisis to another, stoking up
fresh controversy over fat-cat
pay and ditching a high-
profile. high-cost contract in
Bangkok.

Sir Desmond Pitcher, the
autocratic “king of the fat
cats" who was executive
chairman, has gone, follow^
ing on the heels of Brian
Staples, the chief executive he
fired. Derek Green, the new
chief executive, has set Uni¬
ted on a course of compara¬
tive austerity that the City
has warmly welcomed.

His polity of reining back
the ambitious dividend fore¬
casts favoured by the old
guard and of getting back to
basics , rather than chasing
large overseas projects has
reassured investors that
thought that United had lost
its way.

The newly prudent group
is gaining credibility, but it

may be a while before the
benefits start showing
through. And while United is
gening its house in order, the
prospects for substantial
growth look slim.

The company is doubly
exposed to periodic pricing
reviews for its water and
electricity businesses which
will come into effect in 2000.
Its strategy for domestic com¬
petition in power is unlikely
to be bold enough to ensure
that it will be one of the major
players. And the belief is that
big players will quickly swal¬
low the smaller ones in a low-
margin future. No better
than a hold.

Dawson

THE fate of Dawson Interna¬
tional was probably sealed
when it bought J E Morgan a
few years ago.

The management of the
Scottish textile group was
waxing lyrically about the
US company's commanding
position in “performance un¬
derwear", when a City ana¬

lyst asked what exactly “per¬
formance underwear" was,
and how it helped one to
perform.

The Dawson management
was stumped, it had not real¬
ised it was on the other side of
a cultural divide. The group
knows a great deal about
Harris tweed and Pringle
jumpers, but the £11 million
of exceptional charges an¬
nounced yesterday to coyer
returns of Morgan’s thermal
apparel by retailers in the US
shows they stiff have not-
mastered performing in the-
underwear market

The announcement wasabf
companied by the hoisting of J
the white flag, with Dawson
saying it might seek a buyer
for the whole group. Such
was the market's pessimism:,
that It marked the shares —
which once stood at over
200p — down 7bp to 48*2p,
valuing the group at less than
£100 million. Surely even a
wounded Dawson is worth
more than that?

Edited by Paul Durman

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Austria

Belgium (Com)..

Canada --

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France-

Germany

Hong Kang

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Italy---

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Malaysia-

Netherlands ..

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1.6074-1.6087
.... I2.49-12J0
... 36.63-J6J>7
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6.7734-*.7754
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- 1.6735-1.6745

.... . 150.71-150.77

- 7.7876-7.7976

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FTSE VOLUMES

31 281

ASDA Gp 10J5J
Abbey Ntl 1X302
Allied Dam 2.480
Alincc & Leic i.iCM
Anwcscap 1X06
AB Foods

646

BR or SCO! 3.72J

6.716

4S20

1J71

8.850

5.464

3-284

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Bare!ays
Bass

BATTnds
BG

BUIIton
Bluearrte IJ93

HOC 973

BoOU IJB3
Bab 5JIS

BA 4.433

Brit Energy J.4M
Br Land 2J57
BP 7J30

Etrli Steel 3J80
BSkyB 2,524
BT *j*H

BTK 4.670

Cable Wire (LZJ9
Cadbury 1.300
Carton Crus 1^73
Centrica 25J29
Cm union 4 j0«
Compass Gp 1J75
Dlafieo 3.416
EMI 4J!2b

EnerRy Gp J.S04
Entcrpr oil JJS94
Gen acc 3L351
C«i EJcc 3.834
GKN 1.902
Glaw Well 2.976
Granada uis
GUS 3621

GRE 5S3

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KlnRilsher ijsa 3
HSBC 3.867
Hall fa* 25.196
Lad broke Ij67
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Legal B Cn iZU
Lloyds TSB bJGO
Lurasvamy s.rso
Maras spr 4.582
Nai Grid
NM Power
NaiW.q Bk
Ne*i

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Nyeomed Amr 110
Oran Re IJM7
P & O 4.124
Pearson 1.52b

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Reckln Col 374
Reed tnd 3.468
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Beuien SJT70
Rio Tlmu 4.448
soils KOvet 7A5o
Soyol a sun 3^45
Roynl Hk s a 3J79
Safeway 5D93
sainsbury 4JD7
Sctirodem 310
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Seal Pnwcr 1.127
Svm Trwu 590
Shull Trans 10J02
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smiths ind 862
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ECONOMIC VIEW

ANTHONY HARRIS

Let talk of bubbles trouble
the bears with sore heads

; Markets in the

i West may slow

| but pessimists

| are wrong to
| '* be too alarmed
• by asset prices

A ccording to some
gloomy analysts, the
central banks of the
West are now caught
in a dangerous dilemma: cause
a slump or permit a dangerous
bubble Japan burst its own
bubble nine years ago, and has
not even begun to recover on
the contrary, it new seems to be
sliding helplessly from reces¬
sion into depression- The long¬
term remedies, bank recon¬
struction and deregulation, are
ar last being applied very
cautiously: but in the short run
they will only make matters
worse. And in the past few
months, of course, bubbles
have burst throughout South-
East Asia. The financial col¬
lapse has resumed, after a
pause, but the economic fallout
has hardly yet begun.

Asian import demand has
already fallen by a fifth, check¬
ing growth in the US and
Europe, and pushing Japan still
further into depression. But (fie
expected flood of low-cost im¬
ports from Asia is still held bade
by financial chaos: would-be
exporters are crippled by dol-
lar-denominaled debt, and un¬
able to raise the working capital
they need to finance production.
When this problem is solved —
as it will be, thanks largely to
Western aid — output and
'profit margins in the developed
world will suffer.

Yet in the US and Europe,
financial markets are still near
all-time highs, growth is accel¬
erating, and the dangers of
inflation are starting to reap¬
pear. Domestically, there could
hardly be a clearer case for
tighter policies, which would
slow growth and check asset
inflation. The domestic risks
are small: in 1987 the Fed raised
rales, and caused a sharp asset
market correction, but this had
virtually no economic ill-effects,
it was in Britain, where cheap
money was sustained for too
long, that a belated correction
caused a deep recession.

Yet tightening in the West
now may prove the last straw
, for the Asian economies, as the
US Fed is almost obsessively
aware. Asia needs buoyant
Western demand and cheap
debt service if h is to have any
hope of working its way out of
its crisis. So the central banks
are seen as caught between a
rock and a hard place: if they
deflate, they could set off a
world depression. If they hold
off. they may-have to watch
helplessly as a Western bubble
inflates and bursts. The historic
parallel may then not be 19S7,
but 1929. So the split voles in the
Fed and our own MFC reflect
real unease. If only they had
acted earlier...

Are things really as bad as
that? A sober answer must
address two largely separate

questions. Is there a danger of a
bubble economy? And is this a
potential bubble market? The
first at least is a fairly straight¬
forward question. Growth (foes
look unsustainably high in the
US and Britain (and in a
number of smaller economies
— Spain. Portugal and Ireland).
But the Asian crisis has already
provoked sharp downward re¬
visions in forecasts for growth
and profits in the second half of
this year and next A prospec¬
tive growth rate of 2 per cent in
the UK. and US net imports
that may reach 3 per cent of
GDP in the next 12 months,
hardly suggest unmanageable
demand pressures. On die con¬
trary. the biggest worries may
well be about trade deficits. But
these are simply the surpluses
that Asia desperately needs, on
the other side of the accounts.

Few other Western econo¬
mies, meanwhile, are anywhere
near overheating, and some,
notably Germany and France,
are far more worried about
unemployment than about any
threat from prosperity. In there
countries, the astonishing rise
in financial asset markets is an
almost unmixed blessing, the
one strong offset to the econom¬
ic squeeze that has resulted

from the Maastricht conver¬
gence process. It has sharply
increased investor wealth, and
slashed die cost of funds for
expansion. The financial mar¬
kets have already played much
the same role in die US and in
Britain, with results which are
generally seen as benign, and
even enviable.

More important, die pattern
of spending has not been that of
a bubble economy. Economic
bubbles are marked above all
by excessive investment — in
new capacity, and above all in
construction. A slowdown then
leaves a crippling legacy of idle
factories, empty buildings, and
bad debts. That was the pattern
in Texas in the 19SGs. in Japan
in 1990 (and more mildly, in
Britain), and most recently in
the Asian tigers. A suggestive
construction boom has now
begun in the US; but only very
recently. For the rest, spending
has been remarkably sober.
The first claim on rising in¬
comes has not been speculation
or consumption, but saving —
personal, corporate and even at
government level. This looks
more like consolidation than
bubble spending.

AD the same, this pattern is so
unusual, historically speaking.

that the central banks are
devoting much research effort
to analysing it Is it a
conjunctuial accident, or does it
reflect some more profund
change? The provisional an¬
swer seems to be that the
hoarding of corporate cash may
be conjunctuial — a natural
response to gross overcapacity
in so many industries. The
worldwide fashion for fiscal
probity may also be less solid
than it appears: it owes too
much to the business cycle in
the US and Britain and to
window-dressing among the
EMU candidates, and might
melt away if a world recession
brought Keynesian remedies —
already being urged on Japan
— back into general fashion.

The change in personal spen¬
ding habits, on the other hand,
looks more reliable, because it
appears to be the result of real
changes in personal circum¬
stances —job insecurity, demo¬
graphy, and doubts over exist¬
ing pension expectations. Is any
job truly secure in the modem
world? Not even in Japan, the
home of lifetime employment
And ageing is a problem in all
the developed economies, worst
in Japan and continental Eur¬
ope, least threatening in coun¬

tries that stflJ attract young,
economically active immig¬
rants: the US, and now the Rep¬
ublic of Ireland and even the
UK. Even here, though, it is stfll
a problem. The pension burden
is growing remorselessly.

Are existing pension con¬
tracts dependable? Some pri¬
vate schemes have already
ddaulted in Japan. Can the
generous state promises of the
European social market econo¬
mies be honoured, as the
depndency ratio (the ratio of
retired to active workers) gets
rapidly worse, doubling m
some cases? Only with astro¬
nomical rises in taxation. Only
the UK can be half complacent.
It has already cut the long-term
state entitlement virtually to
subsistence level. But this "sol¬
ution" only passes the burden
back m the old. The rational
response, in every case, is to
save more hence the huge flows
to all die safer asset markets.

Big inflows drive up prices,
though; so the nagging doubt
remains. Is the flow largely
speculative, and liable to stop
when prices turn? And how
soon will they turn? These are
partly questions about the
present level of asset prices, a
level that long ago alarmed the
pessimists, sometimes to their
huge cost The question may
look unanswerable: how long is
a piece of string?

However, there are objective
tests. Perhaps the best is the
Federal Reserve's model of “fair
value" for financial assets. It
has performed remarkably well
for some decades in forecasting
the one market that dominates
all the others. As the chart
shows, prices are demandingly
high, but certainly not unprece¬
dentedly so; an optimist might
expect simply a period of flat
prices while reality catches up
with the market

The fact that the inflow is
steady supports optimism: most
savers will still be looking at
large gains on most of their pur¬
chases over time, even after a
correction on the 1987 scale. The
pattern of price movements and
the balance of expectations are
also fairly reassuring. The fall
in prices on Wednesday, on to
renewed Asian worries, was a
rational response to a changing
situation; no sign of panto. And
the weight of gloomy comment,
some of it in highly prestigious
papers, is some protection ag¬
ainst nasty surprises. Speculat¬
ive peaks and collapses are the
result of thoughtless optimism,
not of nail-biting.

There is comfort too, in the
property market always a good
measure of speculative fever.
House price inflation is difficult
to measure: hence the efforts at
the Bank of England to develop
some official index. However,
the ratio of current average
prices to incomes is a good
check of the current level of
prices, if not of their rate of
increase. It shows nothing out
of the ordinary, and certainly
nothing at all like the national
gazumping that set in in the
early 1970s. and again in the
late 1980s, leading in each case
to collapse. In short we have
neither a bubble economy, nor
a bubble market: both look too
strong for comfort, but are
liable to slow. Leave disaster
talk to bears with sore heads.

Switch over

THE European Broadcasting
Union, the club of Europe's
public service broadcasters, is
a fine body, but not one to win
plaudits for its powers of
communication. In fact I
doubt one person in a thou¬
sand has even heard of the
EBU, which negotiates tele¬
vision sports rights to events
such as the Olympics among
other things.

So what luck that one of our
premium communicators
should find himself out of
work just when the Geneva-
based body deckles to boost its

public image. Charles Anson,
still best known for his seven

years as press secretary to the
Queen, has been squeezed out
of his job as corporate rela¬
tions director of Grand Metro¬
politan by the merger with
Guinness and then hired by
the EBU.

Anson tells me that having
faced down the TV companies
at their worst in his days
working for the Palace, he
looks forward to working in
broadcasting at last

□ “7 HE development of the
results was influenced by ...
the extra addition to the value
adjustments to receivables of
the banking operations in
connection with Asia.’' Tfus
particular piece of double-
Dutch comes, predictably,
from the English language
version of Dutch bank JNC’s
results. / think it means Asian
loans had to be written dawn.

a:-

i looks forward
- hmadcastiflg

What Price?

THE agony of waiting is al¬
most over. Within the next few
days. yes. that soon, we will at
last know what they are going
to call the accountancy levia¬
than created by the merger of
Coopers & Lybrand and Price
Waterhouse. For me it will be
an anxious time made bear¬

able only by some enlightened
speculation- Let's see. What
they want is a global name
that says accountancy to the
man in the Bradford chippie
and his counterpart in the Bra¬
tislava boardroom alike.

By a happy coincidence they
already have one. Price
Waterhouse would be an easy
choice, it would be cheap, it
would ensure the survival of
the industry’s best-known
brand. So 1 think we can rule
that out...

troubles at Camelfbrd a while
bade. So it wfll now be known
as Pennon. This is known as
doing a WindscaJe, after the
much-feared Cumbrian
nuclear facility that was re¬
branded as sunny Sellafield. a
tourist destination. But the
poisoning was all a long time
ago, so we must not be cynical.

A pennon is a long, tapering
cavalry standard, cf the naval
equivalent, a pennant. It
evolved from the feudal gonfa¬
lon — look, you're not really
interested in all this, are you?
The pant is that South West
Water’s logo has long been a
pointed flag, for some reason.
It was cheaper to find a name
that fit the logo than do it the
other way around, which is
what they usually do in corpo¬
rate rebrandings.

Cold call

ASTONISHING news from
Virgin. Richard Branson is
opening a lounge at Euston
station on Monday. And
THERE WILL BE A PUBLIC¬
ITY STUNT! He may even al¬
low in photographers! f will
spare you the details, but we
are promised the Virgin ice
sculpture wfll be wheeled out
again to depict "the new Vir¬
gin Trains Silver Lady motif".

I recall when Branson last
used an ice sculpture erf a na¬
ked woman to launch some
product-And the trick with the
vodka- No repetition of that
please. Richard.

Martin Waller

Sea change

A CHANGE of name for
South West Water, stfll identi¬
fied by many with the quaint
habit of poisoning its custo¬
mers after its predecessor's

□ MY COMMISERATIONS
to the smaller insurance com¬
panies team at ABN Amro. A
research document on Wel¬
lington Underwriting went
out with a share price graph
that actually featured the per¬
formance of something called
Wellington Holdings, a tiddly
rubber products company.
(Anything to do with boots?
Probably not). Unfortunate,
because a) ABN Amro is bro¬
ker to the underwriter, and b)
the share price graph showed
an abrupt decline, although
the client has actually done
rather welL Someone put in
the wrong Datastream coda?

“Can you spare a million
roubles for a cup of tea?”

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ANALYSIS 33

Sir John Notf s leadership of the group has not fulfilled earlier hopes

Hillsdown brings
the curtain down
for a graceful exit

T he story of Hillsdown
Holdings, the strange¬
ly unfocused food
group, is entering its epi¬
logue phase. Barring last-
minute hitches Unigale, the
rival food producer, wfll
bring this company’s infa¬
mous life to an end with a
cash bid valuing it at about
£1.6 billion.

A survey of Hfllsdown’s
colourful past shows it to be
an archetypal Eighties
growth company driven by
acquisitions. Then it became
a disappointment as reces¬
sion hit and its rag-bag
collection of businesses
seemed incapable of avoid¬
ing the slings or arrows
thrown by the Nineties. Now
it is a sad group seeking a
graceful exit

Hillsdown was founded in
1975 when Harry Solomon, a
solicitor, got together with
the more entrepre neu rial
David Thompson. Over the
next decade Sir Harry
(knighted in 1991) and Mr
Thompson bought and re¬
structured aggressively. In
the recession of the early
Eighties there were bargains
to be had and Hillsdown —
named after a house owned
by Mr Thompson in
Totteridge, Hertfordshire —
made hay.

The trick was to buy
cheaply and squeeze out
value. The dynamic duo
were not alone in finding
success with the tactic. At
Hanson. Leads White and
Hanson were at it as were
Nigel Rudd and Brian
McGowan at Williams
Holdings.

Bade then it was quite
respectable — indeed, it was
de rigueur — to create con¬
glomerates. What did it mat¬
ter what subsidiaries did as
they made money? It was
also usual to buy companies
by issuing shares to vendors.
That after afl. was what
shares were for, wasn't it?

Few eyebrows were raised
as Hillsdown grew, with
deals owning as fast as one a
week in the firm’s most
frenetic period around the
time of its stock market float
in 1985. As long as the figures
were going in die right,
positive, direction there was
little incentive to question
strategy. Demand for shares
in Hfllsdown’s flotation ran
nearly ten times ahead of
supply-

David Thompson's back¬
ground was in meat and.

Robert Cole

on the drama
of a rag-bag
group about
to reach its
conclusion

while many of the deals were
food related, other things
were snapped up. it is from
this acquisitive period that
today's Hillsdown can trace
the origins of the house¬
building arm. This, and
Hfllsdown’s role as corpo¬
rate fashion victim, over¬
shadows examination of the
underlying businesses.

Chiefly, attention has been
directed at the two founders
and Sir John Nott. the cur¬
rent chairman. Sir John was
Defence Secretary at the time
of the Falkland; conflict and
earned City credentials as
the chairaman of the mer¬
chant bank Lazard Brothers.

Of the three. David
Thompson is the least
visableand the most intrigu¬
ing. A pillar in the early days,
he stepped away from man¬
agement soon after the 1985
float to spend more and
more time satiating his pas¬
sion for thoroughbred horse

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Politics, a success for
the founder of Hillsdown

raring. Perhaps best known
as the owner of the 1992
Grand National winner
Party Politics, Mr Thomp¬
son also owns one of the
country's leading stud farms:
Chevdey Park in Newmar¬
ket. He has also been in¬
volved with Queens Park
Rangers football dob.

By 1989 Mr Thompson
had sold his 30 per cent stake
in Hillsdown. netting him¬
self a £500 million fortune.
Given that the Hillsdown
story began to unravel in
1990. his timing looks
perfect

Sir Harry lingered. By
1992 he had beat obliged to
step down from the chair¬
manship as investor anxiety
grew with the amount of
damage dime to Hillsdown
by tiie recession. Food scares,
battered consumer expendi¬
ture. and a moribund hous¬
ing market made life
difficult Sir Hany remained
on the board of Hillsdown as
a non-executive director until
as late as March of last year.

Sir John Nott took over the
chairmanship from Sir Har¬
ry and hopes were that under
his more cautious leadership
Hillsdown would be led
from die shadows. It never
quite happened. Attempts to
focus the group (as Nineties
fashions demanded) in¬
volved buying more busi¬
nesses while the property
and furniture arras
remained.

Under. Sir John’s leader¬
ship Hillsdown has digested
more than its fair share of
chief executives and finance
directors, but none has made
an impact The search for
shareholders involved Hills¬
down in secret takeover talks
with Unigate this year but
when they stumbled on
price; it led Sir John to
propose a three-way de¬
merger of HOIsdown. That
was three weeks ago and
very much in keeping with
prevailing corporate trends.
But the demerger plan was
only briefly a serious option.
Instead, it brought Unigate
bade with a more public
display of intentions and a
more generous offer.

Many shareholders in
HOIsdown Holdings will be
heaving huge sighs of relief
at Uni gate's offer. They wfll
see the cash offer as putting
an end to (heir misery. But
investors in Unigate could be
forgiven for taking the odd
deep breath.

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34 RELOCATION

THE TIMES FR IDAY MAY 291998 ;

□ami AMOSPHOTOGHAPHY

Time to make a move?

B ritain won nearly a
third of all European
inward investment
projects between Jan¬
uary 1997 and March 1998 —
twice as many as France, with
Germany a poor third. But
Ernst & Young, which sur¬
veyed the field in its report
Choosing your European
Business Location, published
earlier this month, talks of
growing competition from
Eastern Europe and the loca¬
tion-mobile demands of multi¬
national companies.

Continuing turmoil in
South-East Asian economies is
also causing concern. Black
Horse Relocation’s John
Cardan already predicts ris¬
ing in re rest from emerging
“tiger" economies in Latin
America.

Ernst & Young, however,
says the Government needs to
consider updating grant pro¬
grammes to match French and
Irish offers. It identifies high-

David Crawford outlines the factors for companies to
consider in relocating and deciding where to go

volume manufacturers and
value-based service-sector
businesses as target sectors
needing particular study.

The Government has al¬
ready taken one welcome step
with die confirmation last
week by John Prescott, the
Deputy Prime Minister, of
continuing roles for two key
public agencies — the Com¬
mission for the New Towns
(CNT) and English Partner¬
ships (EP}. One of the UK's
largest owners of greenfield
sites in the former new towns
and urban development cor¬
porations, the CNT has devot¬
ed considerable attention to
the needs of expanding as well
as relocating companies.

The regeneration-focused
EP has wooed significant pri¬
vate investment ro locations

such as Chatham Maritime in
Kent by funding essential
infrastructural and transport
improvements. Its Strategic
Sites Database, launched in
February, is designed to gen¬
erate wider international in¬
terest through an Internet-
based "one-stop shop". .

The EP aims to meet grow¬
ing global competition by of¬
fering a seamless location-
funding service for sites which
are ready to build one. A
parallel "brownfields" pro¬
gramme aims to create a flow
of additional sites from cur¬
rently derelict land.

With business becoming in¬
creasingly location-indepen¬
dent. all potential sites now
face searching assessment for
added-value factors. Modem
transport links are critical.

and airports figure largely in
two developments at opposite
ends of the country.

.'Tinsley Park ltd's Sheffield
Airport Business Park has
consent for 74300 sq metre
(03 million sq ft) of business
and industrial space next to
the UK's first regional city
airport for 50 years. In Kent.
Wiggins Group's Mansion
Park has attracted US engine
specialist Cummins Power
Generation and German
autoparts manufacturer
Cohline next door to an airport
which could expand rapidly if
negotiations succeed with the
Ministry of Defence for a
former RAF aerodrome.

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E nvironmental quality
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Sharp Laboratories
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Prudential Portfolio Manag¬
ers/Magdalen College Oxford
Science Park for their Euro¬
pean headquarters was influ¬
enced by masterplanners
Robert Ruramey Associates’
"combination of land form,
roads, water, landscape and
buildings".

Stability, of course, has im¬
mense appeal and Northern
Ireland's attractions are set to
shine brightly after the over¬

whelming "yes" votes in this
month's referendums in both
parts of Ireland. In the most
comprehensive review of in¬
ward investors undertaken in
the British Isles, by Coopers &
Lybrand. three in four com¬
panies surveyed in Northern
Ireland had already confirmed
plans for expansion.

At the same time, externally
owned concerns had commit¬
ted a record £522 million in 41
projects in the year to March
1988. The Province is now
rated the UK’s second most
successful region for winning
overseas investment

Whatever site is chosen,
relocation is expensive. The
average UK move costs E9300
per employee, and 44 per cent
of UK companies use special¬
ist agencies to help with staff
moves. Persona] consider¬
ations are attracting greater
attention as employers count
the cost of moves going wrong.

Dual-income households
are involved in more than 50
per cent of employee moves,
says Black Horse Relocation,
and. as cross-frontier reloca¬
tions of families as well as
executives become more com¬
mon, the costs and risks of
failure can rise. Britain's Asso¬
ciation of Relocation Agents
(ARA) has helped set up the
European Relocation Associ¬
ation (EuRA), to streamline
the movement of people across
and into Europe to match
global investment trends.

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European location

The South: a *
capital place
to do business

LONDON and southern Eng¬
land are expected to break
records for inward investment
when figures are presented to
ministers in July. John
Grigsby writes.

The region's advantages in¬
dude easy access to die Chan¬
nel Tunnel a skilled
workforce with a command of
a wide variety of languages,
and the bonus of the City of
London, with its expertise in
financial services.

Michael Gooch, operations
director for South East Re¬
gional Investment, which was
recently created by the Gov¬
ernment says: “We are ex¬
tremely pleased with the rate
of inward investment We are
finding that the region has
been successful in attracting
firms interested in call cen¬
tres. information technology,
pharmaceuticals and finan¬
cial services"

The location of the Euro¬
pean Pharmaceutical Agency
on the Isle of Dogs has
attracted many international

companies. For ex- _

ample. Norton
Healthcare is
building its
headquarters in
the Royal Docks,
and Kent has at¬
tracted four of the
world's top ten
leading pharma¬
ceutical com¬
panies: Abbott
Laboratories in
Queensborough:

Glaxo Well co me in
Beckenham; and
Pfizer in Sandwich.

London
is still
the prime
magnet for
inward
investment

working hard with the otfiefVV/.■
regions to promote Britam4s\~-
a focus for inward myah^-.
ment There is no questioirtf =
competition between the'i©- '-’':
gions. We work together." Sb 1
Michael played a keypad*' ,j
cementing relationships .be¬
tween the LDDG tfae^Gftjrprd^
London and the City ofWest- -
minster when the^Squaie/
Mile became worried abbot •
the threat from Docklands/ /

This year is London atone,
UteU. the Dutch company**!
operates hotel reservations
has * moved into / Sutton,
Surrey, while WoridCom
International an engvpeerihg.
centre employing 100 people. .
and Krueger international .•
(UK) have located in Camden.
North London, .l :

Meanwhile, the?East of -..
England In vestment-Ageot^.Y:
established just ever d year y
ago and covering: Bedford-"";
shire, Cambridgeshire. Essex. ^
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Suffolk, has attracted six over-
seas companies with fte cres.

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The name Dover is known throughout the world, but many
business leaders may not yet know that it is establishing itself as a
quality business location with real benefits.

The area’s strategic location is obvious, but consider the real benefits
of operating from a flagship site in Dover: communications, low
cost, grants, people. European market access, terrific lifestyle benefits
and a civic determination to welcome and assist.

If you need something good for your business and are interested
in what is surely the most accessible industrial location in
Britain then telephone Ken Welsh, Economic Development,
Dover District Council on 01304 872052.
EmaiJ-econdev@doveruk.com
Web Site - http://www.doveruk.com

while

RJhone-Poulenc Rorer has its
British headquarters at the
new business park at Kings
Hill. West Mailing. CFS
International, the American
debt-collecting agency, will
move into Kings Hill shortly.

Robert Ash mead, chief ex¬
ecutive of Locate in Kent, the
county's inward investment
agency, says: "Our studies
show that Kent is a top-
quality location for business¬
es. People want to come here."

However, the capital is still
the prime magnet for inward
investment. Since it was es¬
tablished in 1994. London
First Centre, which is support¬
ed by councils and companies
amiss the capital, has helped
ISO firms from 20 countries to
move to London or expand.

Sir Michael Pickard. For¬
mer chairman of the London
Docklands Development Cor¬
poration (LDDQ. and chair¬
man of London First Centre,
the capital's inward invest¬
ment agency, says: "We are

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chief executive^;
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nor. perhaps, the labourihg"
workforce to attract heavy:
manufacturing. However, foe
record shows that together die ; r - •
regions constitute a global
player when it comes infor-'
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cluster of 1.000 higiriech
firms in the area. More than.

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RELOCATION 35

Key role
for new

agencies

Craig Seton looks at progress in
reducing the power of Whitehall

N ine new regional
development agen¬
cies (ROAs) sinn¬
ing work next April
will have a powerful role in co¬
ordinating strategies for in¬
ward investment, economic
development and regeneration
in the English regions.

The agencies are being set
up as pan of the Govern¬
ment's commitment to de¬
centralise power. One of their
main tasks will be to work
with local businesses, coun¬
cils. training and enterprise
councils and others to develop
and implement an economic
strategy for the urban and
rural areas in their regions,
including programmes to im¬
prove skills arid business sup¬
port They will also integrate
the work of existing inward
investment and regeneration
agencies in the regions.

One of the newer bodies, the
West of England Development
Agency, covering the former
Avon area, Dorset Glouces¬
tershire, Somerset and Wilt¬
shire. has helped to bring 26
new investment projects worth
£175 million to the region over
the past year. Almost 3J300
jobs have been created or
safeguarded, all but five of
which are from overseas, with
America and Japan topping
the list

In the North, what is said to
be the first new regional

airpon in Britain for more
than 50 years has started
operations. The E6 million
Sheffield dty airport has been
developed by Tinsley Park, a
Sheffield-based property com¬
pany. which is also creating an
adjacent business park.

Daily scheduled services by
KLM to Amsterdam started in
February and are already
carrying 1.000 passengers a
week. Saturday summer char¬
ter flights are being operated
to Jersey. Jon Home, the
airport's managing director,
says that, with four million
people within 40 minutes’
drive, the airpon plans more
British and European routes.

The Commission for the
New Towns (CNT) is making
good progress in disposing of
the property assets of the new
towns and the former urban
development corporations.
The Nikon Corporation of
Japan has bought one of its
units in Milton Keynes fora £3
million ophthalmic lens lab¬
oratory to serve Europe.

Business Post, the express
parcels company, has bought
an eight-acre CNT site in
Runcorn, Cheshire, for a £3.4
million northern distribution
centre. Mi-King, an Anglo-
Japanese joint venture steel
company, is expanding its
operation on a CNT site at
Washington, Tyne and Wear.
WeUstream North Sea, a man-

Tai wan's Louis Wen-HuaTzen. at Acer's Cardiff plant

Welcome for

Asian firms

%

D espite the financial
problems in Asia,
Wales is continuing to
attract investment from the
Far East “You cant group
countries such as Japan. Ko¬
rea and Indonesia together."
says James Turner, the head of
inward investment at the
Welsh Development Agency
(WDA). “The situation in each
country is different."

Japanese manufacturers are
continuing to expand in
Europe. Earlier this year
Toyota announced a £150 mil¬
lion investment at its Deeside
plant in North Wales. This
will create 310 jobs and double
Deeside's capacity to 400.000
engines a year.

Panasonic has established
its £15 million European re¬
search and development
centre at Cardiff, creating 159
jobs. Next month the company
will open its £13 million audio
facility at Port Talbot, creating
285 new jobs.

Japan has had a manufac¬
turing presence in Wales since
1973, when the plastics firm
TaJtiron relocated to Caerphil¬
ly. Over the ensuing 25 years,
54 companies have moved in,
investing £13 billion in Wales
and creating 17,000 jobs. The
Principality is Europe’s largest
manufacturing centre for Jap¬
anese consumer electronics.

To cement the relationship
between the two countries, the
Japanese Emperor Akihito
and Empress Michiko visited
Cardiff on Wednesday. They
met two representatives from
each resident Japanese plant
— one Japanese and one
British.

“We expect more Japanese
investment over the next 18
months, particularly in the
automotive sector," Mr Tur¬
ner predicted. “By the millen¬
nium 1 expea that we will have
welcomed our sixtieth Japa¬
nese company to Wales."

Hie Asian country least
affected by the financial crisis
is Taiwan. Wales’s profile has
been raised there following the
computer manufacturer Acer’s
decision to establish hs Euro¬
pean manufacturing plant in
Cardiff. The E25 million fac¬
tory will create 1 , 000 jobs after

The turmoil of

the Far East’s

economies has
barely affected
Wales, writes

Iola Smith

construction is completed in
July. Acer is Wales's second
Taiwanese company. LG of
Newport has bean hitting the
headlines, and Mr Turner is
keen to disprove speculation
that the E1.7 billion project is
bong delayed. “LG is happen¬
ing," he insisted. “The elec¬
tronics factory is up and
running and has just recruited
its thousandth employee. The
semi-conductor plant is pro¬
ceeding according to plan
following the company's deci¬
sion to change the specifica¬
tion of the chip that h will
manufacture.

“Both plants are essential to
LG’s global plans. The com¬
pany is a world player in chip
production, so it has to have
the plant"

O ne country that Wales
is targeting is Austra¬
lia. Nine businesses
are already in residence, and
the WDA is confident of
attracting a couple more over
the next 12 months. A similar
number is also anticipated
from Hong Kong.

With 145 resident com¬
panies. the United States re¬
mains a major source of
investment. In addition to the
automotive and electronics
sectors, the WDA wants to
attract service sector business¬
es such as core centres from
this market. As a step in this
direction, the Canadian media
company Frontier is investing
EM million on converting Car¬
diff historic Coal Exchange
building into Europe’s first
multimedia village.

Europe is expected to deliver
more projects. A German in¬
vestment is due in the future,
and the Italian presence is
expected to expand.

Senior officials of three development agencies exchange ideas at a recent conference

ufacturer of subsea flexible
pipe, is in its first year on a
240.000 sq ft site at Walker
Riverside m Newcastle upon
Tyne. The company has a full
order book for 1998 and is
producing pipe for a North
Sea Norsk Hydro gas project
Work has started to turn a
former Boots Company print¬
ing works in Nottingham into
a new European operations
centre for Capital One, the
American credit card com¬

pany. The £30 million project
which will create 900 badly
needed jobs, was won against
fierce European competition
and involved close co-opera¬
tion between the Govern¬
ment's urban regeneration
agency, English Partnerships,
the East Midlands Develop¬
ment Company and Notting¬
ham Dty Council.

The West Midlands Dev¬
elopment Agency helped to
win 71 overseas investment

projects worth almost £800
million in the year to March.
They will create up to 5300
new jobs and help to safe¬
guard another 11.000. English
Partnerships has launched a
new Internet property data¬
base to give potential inward
investors information about
the best development sites
available in England.

• English Partnerships
Website address: http://www.

englishpartnershipS-CO.uk

Scotland’s calling

T elevision's Rab C.
Nesbitt should be
proud of his fellow
Glaswegians, for despite his
spiky reputation, his coun¬
trymen possess the voices
that everyone wants to hear
for guidance and reassur¬
ance: Scotland is experienc¬
ing an explosion of call
centres: there are now more
than 120, and half their
operators are in Glasgow.

Well-developed telecom¬
munications and low operat¬
ing costs are cited as reasons
for Scotland’s attraction, but
one big factor is the quality
of the workforce: there is a
ready supply of highly
skilled graduates, many
with language qualifica¬
tions. About 16.000 people
are now employed in die
call-centre industry and the
figure is expected to double
within two years.

Scotland has some of the
biggest call centres in
Europe — BSkyB employs
1300 at Livingston, and First
Direct, the 24-hour tele¬
phone bank, expects to cre¬
ate 5.000 jobs in Scotland
over the next six years.
Dundee will benefit from
800 new jobs created at a BT
Connections in Business
Centre, and Denver-based
Tele Tech Holdings is open-

Welcoming
accents and
knowhow lure
employers,
says Alan
Jenkins

ing its flagship European
centre in Glasgow early next
year, and promises 500jobs.

The country is now at¬
tracting some of the most
sophisticated operations,
among them the IBM help
centre at Greenock, which
serves 15 countries in II
languages.

The continuing economic
crisis in the Far East has
brought a halt to the project¬
ed billion-pound Hyundai
development at Dunferm¬
line, the future of which is
still under review.

But the Scottish Office’s
agency Locale in Scotland is
projecting another record
year, notably from a big
investment by the Califor¬
nia-based electronics firm
Cadence, a world leader in
semkonductor design ser¬
vices. Cadence is behind the

Alba Centre, work on which
has just begun at Rosebank.
Livingston. It is already
being hailed as “the cradle
of a new industrial revolu¬
tion", establishing Scotland
as the premier location for
electronics companies to de¬
sign advanced “system-on-
chip” semiconductors,
which enable one chip to do
the job of several.

The Livingston operation
has three strands, involving
Government, private capital
and academia. Cadence will
establish its chip design
centre there: an independent
trading house for semicon¬
ductor designs will be estab¬
lished; and four universities

— Edinburgh. Glasgow.
Heriot-Watt and Strathdyde

— will collaborate in setting
up the world’s first System
Level Integration Institute,
to provide design engineers
with new expertise.

The object of the technol¬
ogy is to “combine increas¬
ing numbers of hardware
and software functions with
ever-reducing dimensions
on one chip".

Small may be beautiful to
Cadence, but the hoped-for
revolution on a 96-acre site
at the heart of Silicon Glen is
expected to lead to the
creation of 4,000 jobs.

Business success
means being
in the right place at
the right time.

Strategically located between Manchester and Liverpool, at the focal
point of the UK's biggest concentration of motorways.

The focus of the country's fastest growing region, this ancient cathedral
city is ready to meet the needs of the future with new communication
links and modern infrastructure.

Close to the Ribble Valley, a key town in an area of the UK with a This major industrial and commercial centre successfully combines the
booming economy larger than that of some European countries. best of old and new and is now one of the fastest growing areas in Britain.

In today's volatile business environment,
success depends on strategic location.

Industry and commerce alike need
rapid, easy access to key markets and suppliers,
here and abroad. Access provided by major
communication arteries: motorways, key rail
routes, airports, and seaports.

CNT is England’s largest owner of develop¬
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for business success. Like the six shown here,
built from day one with business in mind
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A strategic location isn’t the only benefit.
They all offer an enthusiastic welcome to new
companies seeking growth and expansion.
They have established business infrastructures.
Their workforces are young, dynamic,
forward-looking. They are ideal places to live,
in attractive environments, with a wide
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leisure facilities.

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PAGE 40

MARIL YN KWGWILL

LONDON

CARMEN Safy Burgess mates a
tvetenmp rrtum to Die English N&wrel
■Opera Bnqrg the role o* the
passionate gypsy girt. J rote which tus
won her areal acdarn m America and
Germany as wsB as at heme David
Recti and John La Bouchardiere fanny
duecl ihc now supng oUortaman
Miser's stunrwig production rf Bust's
tense, sensual tragedy David Rendal
sngs ine port ol the tesoned Don
Jose Noqi Qaues conducts
Contain. St Matin's Lno. WC2
(0171-&C 63001 Opens lonigm. 7pm.®

MUSICAL CTTft An acton -pacMsd
weekend at Dw Bartxan opens with a
periormancs tonight by Ihe Royal
PTiiltiarmonc Orchestra rTOJ by the
acciarmad wlims; 1 asran bit© in a
perwrmance ot Bruch's Fma lftotn
Concerto tramed byworiaiby
Mendelssohn and Bruckner
Tomorrow rhe versatile Nastrville-
bwri soprano Dawn Upshaw presents a
p r ogran WW dl tracUnnal American
songs Joining tier are a rarefy ot
nsmimemabsn. rcJudmg banjo player
B* Crohn and his band
On Sunday the London Symphony
Orchestra mute its conductor laureate,
Andra Prem opens a senes ol 20th-
ceniixy American muse. iKfcnig oh wun
Copland's one aci bafieJ ApputactMn
Sfwm <3 tonowod by puces by Previn and
WiBiam Schunan

Barbican. S*> Street. EC2 (0171-638
86911 AO concerts 7J0pm £}

I TODAY’S C

HOICE I

Adally guide
andentertair
compUed by Uai

to arts
ment
rttHargie

Form. Bpm). featuring works by John
Adzvnsand Terry Rfey Otherhgh&gftts
are two arans m me Gukftal by the
Anita Quartet. The one tomorrow (Bpml
ndudes a UK prerneie by FrarcKconl
coopted to watte by Ug«i and Xftiakc.
whie Sunday's (3J0pm) features
Gutmd^ra, Adas and Schnittke
Festival Bax Office: (01225 4633631

Brafirm, and a ptera w SzymanowsW
Wigmort Has. Wigmora S&ttL W1
(0171-9352141) Tonight. 730pm. B

ELSEWHERE

BATH: A tsstnral wdrand dmoiad lo
contemporary muse teaiures a concert
by Die Krunos Ouanet loregnt (TTe

BnnmsIAU James Bolam ptayc
he woiNH»9wtlBiTian in A Fool and
Me Money. Jeremy Sams's adaptation
ol Metre's lf> Brxirgscrs Gerndhomro
Marin Duncan cSrects ffvs ay
production «nth Nottingham Playhouse.
BJnrVngtKm Repertory Theatre.
Broad Street. (0121-236 4456) Previews
from toni^». 730pm OpensJme2.
7pm UnU Jure 20 Q

MIDORI Corwumg her but de force
ol European concert venues the
oroc&gousiy girted woimfer arrives in
Loncton io make her debut at the
Wigmore On the programme are
sonatas tv Beethoven. Fart and

CHESTER AmBfySOn.Viaai
McCone and Caroline Wki plav the two
women and their food-iovtng man n
Debbie tertls exceflenl black comedy.
The WOman Who Cooked Her
Husband Deborah &«p*<WectS.
Gateway. HartWon Place. (01244

340392) Praviews tomorrow and Mon.

7 45pm Opens June 2.7 45 pm £j

LONDON GALLERIES

G COPENHAGEN Mctuef
Bbhemare dreas Mchaet Frayn's new
play, rnugrtng the reasons behind the
■xnous ws4 paid by ihe German
physios! Heisenberg lo Mala Bohr in
1941 Whh Matthew Marsh. Damd Burke.
Sara Kesffitrrvin

National iCohasJoe]. South Bank. SE1
(017145230001 Tantf* aid tomorrow.
7 30pm. mai tunorrow, 2 30pm in rep

□ FRANZtSKA flrsl ever English
oertorrnanceatvVedekirKfs 19 n drama,
his last important play presented by
lri>go a lemaic Faust seSs her sour tor
cabaret lame

Gate Theatre, Prmo? fllPen Pub. it
Penfcndge Hoad. W1I [0171-129 0706)
Mcn-SoL 730pm UnllJire6

□ MEASURE FOR MEASURE:
Steptiane BraunscfnvetQ's awanhvmnlng
co-production with Nottingham
Playhouse, Dry seen at Edinburgh in
1997. in London lor one week.

Barbican. S* Shea. EC2 (0171 -638
88911 Tue-Sai. 7 15pm. mats Ttur and
Sat. 2pm 6)

□ A MmSUMMER NIGHTS
DREAM: Rachel havanargh'S 1997
produdnn levrved with pradomaianOy
new cast tut ot good people' Damien
Matthews. Tvnorhv Watson. Helen
Grace, Hebecca Johnson Ian Talbot
back agan as Bottom

Open Air Theatre. Regent's Park.

NWl (0171-4862431). Tonight and
tomorrow. 8pm In repertoire

ill

sings the
atENO

THEATRE C

aUlDE

Jammy Kingston's 1
ot theatre shortng
■ House fuU, rotums
B Some seats avallafa
□ Seats at sfl prices

■seessment

In London

S*

Barbican: The Warhol Look (0171-838
8891) British Museum: Rsrpa Art
horn the lderrecu Colec&ar. Tokyo
10171-323 062 S 1 Design Museam:

Ferctnand Porsche Design Dynaoy
| 01 71-378 60551 . Goethe InsMutK
Chnshan Harussek. Resin Patrtngs
(0171-594 0214) Heyward: Antsh
Kapoor (0171-928 3144) .

Serpentine: Cometa Parker (0171-402
8075) Tata Turner and (he
Saerdsts An Artist n Tied Cutturss
(0171-88760001 V 4 A. The Power

Ol the ft»ter (0171-938 834ftB44l)

Subtle as
a rice
pudding

□ NABOKOVS GLOVES: Greg Wise
plays a tant-ur. with Niamh Cusack
and ftih Getrvnel) as tts wife and
cliert m Peter MoBar6 play about male
obsession and betrayal tar Brown
directs

Htanpetaad Theatre. Smss Collage
Centre, NW310171-722 9301) Mon-Sat
8pm. mat Sal 3 30pm 6

D THE REAL INSPECTOR
HOUND/BLACK COMEDY-rnspaad
oouping ol Slqpparcfs parody
MhoOunU and Shatters ftghr-for-daik
farce Greg Doran's exceSert cast
inckides Desmond Barrft David
TennanL Saa Crewe. Mchola
McAuhlle.

Comedy Thaatre. Paraon Sheet. SW1
10171-360 17311 Mon-SaL 730pm:
mara Wed and SaL 3pm

D RENT- Much-hyped musical about
troubled, brave Americans. Arrpified
m4dng blasts (he ears
Shaltasbury. Shalta&buy Avenue.

WC2 (0171-379 5399) Mon-Sal
7 JOpm. mats Wed and Sal 3pm Q
□ THE SHOEMAKERS
WONDROUS WIFE/DON
PERUMPUN: Absolute Theatre
ceietnte Lorca's urteruy <mh a
double (HI (the first a Brmsh prenuae):
passonate oagr-fames to do Mh
laithkessness, real or suspected
BAC. Lavender hM. SWI1 (0171-223
2223) Tue-Sat Bpm. Sun 6pm £

■ SHOW BOAT: Hal Pmce s
spectacularly lavish Broadway
produebon. wsh Mchet Bed as Joe and
Gaoga (gizzard as Csp'n Andy
Prince Edward. CKd Compton Street
W1 (0171-447 5400) Mon-SaL 730pm
mats Thi* ana Sal. 230pm

LONG RUNNERS

Trouble brewing: David Suchet Alexis Conran. Dearbhla Molloy and Gary Whitaker in Eduardo de Filippo's play

Tears in the kitchen

W hile one might agree..
that people who earn
a living working the
market are socially less usefiil :
than backstreet pimps, this is. -
not to say they should all bew..
stoned to death. Molly >; ; $

Fogarty, author of this wefl-;:i ..
meant but fault-filled play,$. : '
suggests stoning as an appretf.: . ■
priate climax to a life raucouifc^', ..
ly concerned with r eaping ■
profit from the disasters otv' *.
others. Floods in China? Buy^
rice cheap, sell dear. A fortune-^?- ■.
for the canny operator death ^ v-/. ‘
for the starving Chinese. ..;.

l suspect that markets draVt' ? ' '; :-
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the privilege of playwrights to & f
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the line that connects the^ r. .■
wealth of the few to the misery & - . ,
of millions. Unfortunately.^V '•
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crassly emphasising her play's*;,' 1

social intentions. -:v'

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trader on the Chicago FutartsriK ' r ‘

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mon enough, even in
this post-feminist
world. Mum. who
takes pride in her cooking,
feels more and more taken for
granted by Dad. Indeed, she
cannot stop remembering the
day he said that her daughter-
in-law^ macaroni was the best
he had tasted. And Dad is
increasingly vexed by the fam¬
ily friend who cannot stop
showering Mum with over¬
blown compliments. Indeed,
he manages to convince him¬
self that this loudmouth, a
harmless accountant with a
nice wife, is having an affair
with her.

Since all ends well, it sounds
just the stuff of old-fashioned
West End comedy. Cast Rich¬
ard Briers and Penelope Keith
in the main roles, and even
today it might run for years.
But the author is the magnifi¬
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time 1954. He is able to charge
his action with far more
meaning than is conceivable
in an England where people
have long sloughed off their
marriages tike overcoats when
the going got hot — and where
emotional transactions usual¬
ly involve two or three people,
seldom the big. close dan
which watches appalled as
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rects accusations of adultery at
Dearbhla Mollpy's Rosa.

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pretty but over-posh apart¬
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signed for the opening
production of Chichester's
1998 season. That deepens and

darkens the humour, but cre¬
ates predictable difficulties for
lude Kelly's cast. They must
find a most un-Brirish volatili¬
ty and. at times, a fierce
intensity. They must make us
believe in the minor rows that
ripple round their pond — the
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O berm an as Peppino's daugh¬
ter and Alexis Conran as her
woebegone fianefc — and they
must distinguish these from
the marital Vesuvius seething
away at the play's centre.

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give us ebullient and often
enjoyable comedy and they
give us pathos, but nothing
much more. We laughed a lot
when Suchet’s Peppino tried to
manipulate his supposed ri¬
val. Fred Ridgeway's hearty
Luigi, into a fight with Ste¬
phen Marcus as the maid’s
beefy, bald, crazy brother. I
was genuinely touched when
he and Molloy reached their
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is actually a Neapolitan Othel¬
lo dreaming of terrible
revenges.

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had a major British produo
non since 1973, when Zeffirelli
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grandpa whose hobby is
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slips around the duo like the Hunchback
of Notre Dame, dropping ugly innuendos
(ike bricks. He is suitably unbelieving, but
also unbelievably naive. The strangeness
of the scenario serves only to keep us at a
cool distance.

So it is with Finncas Edwards's first

play. TV Tots Meet Bomb Boy, a
production outstanding primarily for its
title. A brother and sister trapped for 13
years in their mother's closet (dont ask)
fantasise themselves into The Wizard
of Oz. Punky-looking Sally Carman,
crowned with a plaited wig. plays a
demented Dorothy to her mad brother's
Wiz (Daniel Roberts). Sabrina Sutton
drifts around maternally in a gold shift.
Mark Denny's Bomb Boy gets angry. It’s
like an acid trip down the yellow brick
road, destination unknown.

It is also an extremely odd piece of
writing: like Upton'S, it takes its sole
pleasure in boxing its own eccentricities.
Hie resu 1 1 is that despite the black comedy
of each scenario, both plays are simply too
bemusing.

Exchange, first seen gorging. . ; ;.V
on junk food and then pranc-V ...
ing off to the bathroom to . - : re¬
throw up. In case we don’t get - - v y-. - -
the picture, her gobbling Is/ .- * v :
done to a background of-/ •- ■ -
grunting pigs. Trish is there^ /'.y. r .'
fore a bundle of neuroses, but /
worse than this she is a pain in .-r '
the ass. The script does not ..-,/-. •
help Claire Smithies to give a./ /; -
performance that could n-.
moiely be called subtle but •. / ;
Smithies herself compounds ,
the problem with her flounces > ' /

and snappy tone of voice.

The real world slides into
fantasy when Trish* great¬
grandfather. who fled Ireland
after the famine, walks
through the wall into her /

apartment, and a pregnant
Chinese woman from die
future emerges from a small //

cupboard. Will Trish learn the L -

intemational consequences of /

her selfishness? : 1- .

The play is co-produced by . /;/.
Theatre Centre and The • V

Hungry Grass, a company f

expressly formed by John
O'Mahony to present tins ./• '

work. His performance as the
decent old irishman is precise, -
uncluttered and attractive to
watch, as is Jac Lyn Tse in her
quieter role. The onstage both - B v .

is one of the better passages# ■■ .
Rosamunde Hutt’s direction :
but she does not handle welL/
the junctions between events /

real and imagined- The sub- :

ject deserves a better play.
with craftier development and_ /
scarier events, and without “7
Trish beating her forehead
and crying: “TTiis is CRAZY!". . - ’■

Spot the telecom is-■

B y ihe J-J- ' .

Briuini t”^ ~-

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The oompendon- 1 '■ /

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association with The
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Prince of Wales to find r.cv» ■ .
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masts. Match ihe xmr'r;- ■
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market crosses to tht !ir.;.
said the Prince, who ru;- r •
initiative.

The compeoiion is in -w ;• • •; :
Stage one L« an open ideas
non. Entrants are asked; ■ -
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Spot the (decoms hardware; above, a mill in Boflington, Cheshire, restored with help from Orange, which added a mast to its central tower right, one of Orange’s “Scots pines”; below, Hull's restored lighthouse sports a new “flagpole"

THE TIMES FRIDAY MAY 29 1998

Phone masts? What phone masts?

B y the latest calculations.
Britain's four major mo¬
bile telephone networks
have already erected some
>4.000 masts across the country.
And they are hungry for more.
Which is why the Prince of Wales is
supporting a new national competi¬
tion to find visionary ideas for the
design of mobile telephone masts.

The competition, the Orange
Millennium Landmark Initiative,
is launched by Orange pic in
association with The Times. The
Orange competition was prompted
by a gauntlet thrown down by the
Prince of Wales to find new ways of
thinking about mobile telephone
masts. Match the contribution of
windmills, lighthouses, spires and
market crosses to the landscape,
said the Prince, who is patron of the
initiative.

The competition is in two stages.
Stage one is an open ideas competi¬
tion. Entrants are asked to consider
typical locations (urban, suburban,
country), and choose specific or
generalised locations as they pre¬
fer. The solutions should be cele¬
brations of place and not seek to
disguise masts or make them
invisible. The jury will favour ideas
which combine the practical with
the imaginative. After an autumn
awards ceremony, stage two will
see winning concepts developed
with Orange.

Orange has already erected al¬
most 4.000 masts, and expects to
have more than 10,000 masts

With up to 40,000
mobile telephone
masts on the march
in Britain, the task
is to make them
beautiful. Marcus
Binney introduces
the Orange design
competition
launched yesterday

marching across the country by
2001. on average some four miles
apart By the time the corporate
aim of covering 95 per cent of
Britain’s land surface has been
achieved, we look set to have up to
40.000 masts, placed on many of
the highest points in die land so
that they can talk not only to us but
to each other as well.

Now take the fact that the tallest
man-made structure in the world —
in Poland — is a radio mast, rising
2.106ft Add to this the fact that in
the booming 1980s. the Tories,
anxious to help to speed the new
mobile networks, exempted than
from the need to obtain planning

permission for their masts. Now
you can see why the Council for the
Protection of Rural England says:
“Their impact on die countryside,
individually and cumulatively, can
be devastating."

True, the exemption from plan¬
ning permission extends only to
masts which are less than IS metres
(4$ft) high, with a sliding scale for
masts placed on buildings. And
there is an upside. First, many of
these masts are attached to existing
structures. In towns, they can go on
roofs, on lampposts, surveillance
camera poles, even on stadium
floodlights. “Some of our widgets
are no bigger titan a burglar alarm

box." says Cellnet Currently, 60
per cent of Orange masts are on
shared structures—the BBC is one
erf its biggest partners.

Given the environmental sensi¬
tivities. disguise is also an occasion¬
al option — whether as special
lampposts in towns or artificial
trees in the country. Orange and
Vodafone both have tree proto¬
types. Orange has a Scots pine
design that sits discreetly on the
edge of a wood within a little ring
fence. Vodafone'S first 70ft steel tree
stands against a backdrop of
Douglas firs between junctions 12
and 13 of the M4 at Yattendon, in
an area of outstanding natural

HOW TO ENTER

■ All entries must be in the form ofc

— two AJ sheets of drawings mounted on lightweight foam board

— a written statement of up to 500 words

— an entry fee of E10 (E5 for students).

■ Entries should be sent toe Orange Millennium Landmark
Initiative, The Economist Building. 25 St Jam es’s Street,

London SW1A1HA (information line, 07970 451111), to arrive
no later than September 14,1998.

■ Prizes: Professional category — first prize £5,000, plus three
commendations of £1.000. Student category — first prize £2,000,
plus three commendations of £500. Community category — first
prize £3,000, plus three commendations of £750.

■ Following an award ceremony this a irtmnn . selected designees
will help to develop solutions for implementation.

beauty. This is an idea that the
company pioneered for its network
in South Africa.

Better still, antennae can be set
virtually invisibly on water towers,
church towers and steeples. Ute
income they proride can prove a
boon to clergymen and parish
councils, and may indude a lump
sum to repair the belfry, for
example, as well as an annual rent.
"We have sited some 20 antennae
on churches, Anglican. Church of
Scotland, Catholic, and Methodist
We usually approach the church
and rent can be up to £3,000 a
year," says Orange’s Siobhan
Aalders.

Renovation extends beyond
churches. In Hull. Orange has
helped to renovate a lighthouse,
which Is now topped by a mast
which looks like a flagpole. Best of
all. perhaps, is Horton Tower in
Dorset, a 300ft-high Baroque folly
of 1726 which had been crumbling
for years on a hilltop. Vodafone
arrived and invested a handsome
£100.000 in repairs, neatly burying
all the station equipment
underground.

Gwyn Headley, the president of
die campaigning Folly Fellowship,
says: "Sane follies have nothing
more inside than a spiral stair
leading to a viewing platform.

Once antennae are installed, the
buildings are not only put in good
repair but protected from
vandalism."

Most important of all, the mobile
phone companies themselves have
become sharply aware of the sensi¬
tivities of the issue. Cellnet recently
announced foe results of a competi¬
tion among students, and is invest¬
ing £250.000 in building two
winning designs — a tripod-style
mast which can straddle a road or
river, and a gjass-and-light varia¬
tion on a slimline monopole.

Orange now follows with its own
open competition, with three cate¬
gories — for professionals, for the
public, and for schools — ensuring
the widest sweep of ideas.

The most popular tack among
professionals will be for sculptural
minimalism: slender, elegant
masts intended to form graceful
new landmarks. Richard Horden,
the architect of foe awardwinning
grandstand at Epsom, advises:
"There should be a weight limit for
each size of mast Architects have a
tendency to throw materials at a
problem. They should team up
with engineers and find ways of
minimising the materials used.
Success in engineering lies in using
materials efficiently."

Richard Morrison is away.
His weekly column will re¬
turn next Friday

Nonsense makes sheer joy

I ure pleasure is one
thing, but an element of
surprise doubles it. Op-
lorth announced a hand-
concert performances of
ge and Ira Gershwin’s
musical to mark the
oser's centenary, but the
nee arrived on Wednes-
j find that the money had
how been found to stage
rnsical itself, i
a simple staging — a
id permanent ; set by
les Edwards, basic direc-
iy Caroline Gawn. thrift-
period costumes by
/ Gillibrand — and all the
■ for that emphasis is
y on foe words and
z. It is sung and spoken
al singers and carefully
ictors. there is not a whiff
iose amplification, and
zippy, sophisticated,
•civilised show could
fer to foe West End
rrow and run for months.
* piece itself is pure gold.
Gershwins adored Gil-
md Sullivan, and this is
for the 20th century. The
is delirious nonsense
t a presidential candidate
ing on a love ticket, but
is in the best G&S there
ome lethal lines in Ira's
and in George S. Kauf-

s and Morrie Ryskind’S
especially foe mordant
lies of campaign speech-
ne of them — “we appeal
it hearts, not your inteln-
•- — sounded rather too
to home for comfort, as
ie fact that the campaign
tger is a press baron-
ini White House she-
-ans made it all seem as
|] as tomorrow's head-
Someone telling
Jem that he “will go
. .u., nmawr lover in

OPERA

about the executive office
being "the most interesting
room in foe White House" was
lost in gales of laughter.

One interesting aspect of the
Gershwin partnership is the
way Ira's words drive foe
music it’s not a matter of
George simply dropping in a
string of hit numbers, as in
some earlier works. Acres of
nonsensical plot are inge¬
niously set to witty, parodic
music, and foe songs are
interestingly shaped, interwo¬
ven with deft counter-melo¬
dies. The score was gutsify
conducted by wyn Davies,
and just as gutsily played by
the English Northern Phil-
harmonia. transforming
themselves into a Big Band for

foe occasion. The Opera North
chorus disported themselves
with boundless energy as
beauty queens, newspaper re¬
porters and much else. Is any
other opera company in the
world this versatile?

The singers include Kim
Criswell as a Southern Belle
who makes Scarlett O'Hara
look tike a shrinking violet,
William Dazeley (fresh from
Pelfeas at the Opfera-Comique)
as the President and Marga¬
ret Preece as his true love.

Among foe actors are Steven
Beard, dazzlmgty funny as
Vice-President Throttle-
bottom. and Shane Rimmer,
chilling as the media magnate.
But you can’t really tell which
are actors and which are
singers, and instead admire
foe work that has gone into
their pointed, witty delivery of
fines, spoken or sung. Yes,
pure pleasure.

Rodney Milnes

A quality show in

A t first it seemed as
though foe opera-as-
rehearsal virus, so
dispiritingly prevalent at
Glyndeboume. was catching:
the first act of Music Theatre
London’s new Fledermaus for
the BOC Covent Garden Fes¬
tival had a distinctly unfin¬
ished fed to «t on Tuesday.
Rodney Milnes writes.

In Tony Britten's engaging
adaptation, Eisen stein is a city
banker with a drink problem
who has been booked into the
Jeffrey Bernard Clinic and
Orlofsky throws a "come as
your favourite film star" fancy

dress party. . .

— -—*.- h-ifixation is both

fiantly elitist, introducing the
Brotherhood ensemble with a
cheeky reference to Schiller
before segueing into Sinatra-
speak. There'S much purpose¬
ful name-dropping — Richard
Eyre. Peter Mandelsoa Ann
Widdecombe, Vivian Du (field
and so on.

After the dim start, things
look up in the second half
with the amazing Simon
Butteriss as the Artist Former¬
ly Known as Prince Orlofsky
doing his Liza Minnelli im-

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Lion-tamer in
a vicious circus

O n paper at least Opera
Circus looks just the
company to stage an
opera starring a lion-tamer.
But Alasdair Nioolson’s Cat
Man’s Tale, composed a year
ago. is a much darker work
than the producers realise or
want to realise, with foe result
that this one-off performance
during the BOC Covert
Garden Festival seemed much
longer than its 90 minutes. As
there are no real animals in
this circus no cruelty was
shown, only a little heartless¬
ness towards foe audience
huddled in foe draughty
Cochrane Theatre.

Based on Erica Wagner’s
short story The Great Leonar¬
do. this Ffellini-esque piece, set
in both a church and arcus
encampment, tells of four
characters each trapped in

the end

“Clorinda Garrctt-An derson"
in the programme barely dis¬
guises his return as Frosch,
foe matron-from-hell at the
dinic who has recently re¬
turned from Saudi Arabia. In
the performance stakes, the
only real challenge to
Butteriss coons from Liza
Sadovy’s dizzy Adele, who
goes to the party as Marilyn
Monroe, has the legs to cany
it off, and sings everyone rise
off foe stage.

But it’s afl good dean (un¬
well. fairly dean fun — and
with some general tightening
and redirection of foe first act
should delight audiences
when it transfers to foe Drill
Hall fora run next month.

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their own lurid isolation. The
show promises to somersault
the spectator from pulpit to
circus ring, and indeed it does,
but with far too much gag-
driven energy. Opera Circus is
one of those companies that
inhabit the fringjer regions of
foe music theatre world, and it
is likely to remain there with¬
out better direction than the
land supplied by Feta Lfly and
Tina Ellen Lee. Jamie Vartan’s
arcus-cage sets may have
been basic, but they could
have been filled with much
more meaningful action.

A pity, for Nioolson’s score
matches the fragmented virtu¬
osity of David Harrower's
libretto well One short scene
folds into foe next with ease:
foe composer, featured at this
years festival, writes with
theatrical flair, and with vitali¬
ty recalling Stravinsky’s Sol¬
diers Tale. Set to music for
clarinet cello and percussion,
foe vocal lines are sometimes
angular but always singable.

The cast of singing actors
was headed by Susan Bisatt as
the trapeze artist afraid of
coming down to earth. Roger
Langford caught foe plight of
the hon-taraer losing his pow¬
ers, Carole Irvine was strong
as the strange woman who
unsettles foe priest (Bruce
Evans) and dnves hirn to¬
wards becoming a circus
hand. All'worked hard, as did
foe band led by Neyire
Ashworth.

John Allison

Giving voice to train tales

H arry Partch would
have approved of Dif¬
ferent Trains. The
outcast pioneer composer
(1901-74) of human speech and
sounding bodies might have
found in Steve Reich's visceral
masterpiece one apotheosis of
his vision. R>r where Partch,
in works such as US High¬
ball: a musical account of
Slim's Transcontinental
Hobo Trip (1943), also per¬
formed here, mixed vernacu¬
lar-based narrative with raw
accompaniment, Reich’s Holo¬
caust triptych grows from the
very intonation of real speech.

Out of the artifice of speech
sample, whistle sounds, string
quartet and live players a

human tragedy emerges
transcendent

In US HighbalL the fact
that Slim’s rambling mono¬
logue is delivered by a trained
voicefights with its native grit
And although there are arrest¬
ing moments in this string
quartet version — the rasping
despair of bow on bridge, foe
rhythms tapped out on the
cello’s shoulder — foe relation¬
ship between words and music
was not organic.

While Partch’s harmony is
two dimensional, dry and
dusty, fitting its subject Reich
is not afraid to weave a
lavishly beautiful harmonic
canvas.

To hear the Kronos perform
Different Trains is to hear a
uniquely seasoned interpreta¬
tion. Despite the ruthless disci¬
pline imposed by foe tape
(which they recorded ten years
ago), a seemingly spontaneous
communion with their youn¬
ger selves occurred. Violist
Hank Dutt, in particular,
shaped his warning phrases
with eloquence, and all gave a
freely emotional reading.

Helen Wallace

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THE SMASHING

PUMPKINS

Adore

(Hut HUTCD5I £14.49)
DISTINGUISHED by their
aloof manner and an Ameri¬
can Gothic musical style
swathed in layers of mystical
complexity, the Smashing
Pumpkins have become one of
the ten biggest groups in the
world while maintaining an
imperious disregard for main*
stream pop niceties. Never an
act to do things by halves, they
return after an absence of
three years with Adore, which,
while falling some way short
of the monumental length of
their sLx-mtliion-selling dou¬
ble album. Mellon Collie and
t he Infinite Sadness, is still a
work of considerable depth
and substance.

The album is flagged by the
sensational hit single Ain
Adore, a love song with a
malicious beat and an obses¬
sive emotional undercurrent,
which hinges on the line “We
must never be apart", sung by
Billy Corgan with a Jaager-
esque snarl that makes it hard
to disentangle affection from
aggression.

But it is not especially
representative of the album as
a whole and — with the
notable exception of Tear, a
magnificent song with a sad
and sinister beauty, driven by
a monster riff of vaguely
Middle Eastern provenance —
Adore is a collection of songs
with comparatively gentle
moods and subtle appeal.

NEW POP ALBUMS; David Sinclair

falls under the Pumpkins’ spell

The aching tune of Once
Upon a Time, shored up by
acoustic guitars and tambou¬
rines. is not untypical, while
the use of drum loops (in the
wake of the sacking of drum¬
mer Jimmy Chamberlin)
lends a New Order-ish dance-
rock feel to numbers including
Appels and Oranjes and
Perfect.

Whether playing hard or
soft, the Pumps have always
made music that has to be
pored over repeatedly before it
even begins to surrender its
charms, and this album is no
exception. For those prepared
to invest rime and effort.
Adore is likely to prove a
richly rewarding experience.

ROD STEWART

When We Were the New Bovs

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IT MAY have seemed a good
idea on paper to get Rod

Stewart to record a batch of
songs originally performed by
British acts of a more youthful
and energetic disposition than
the rapidly mellowing rocker
himself. But for anyone hop¬
ing that the exercise might
rekindle the spark of ragged
genius that propelled Stewart
and the Faces to international
stardom in the 1970s. the
resulting album. When We
Were the New Boys, is strange¬
ly disheartening. For the most
part his readings of numbers
such as Cigarettes and Alco¬
hol (Oasis) and Rocks (Primal
Scream) are capable, if a little
prim and literal. But faced
with something more chal¬
lenging. such as Skunk
Anansie's Weak, Superstar’s
signature song. Superstar. or
Nick Lowe's Shelly My Love.
Stewart reverts to'stodgy, Los
Angeles rock-cabaret 'mode,
while his only new composi-

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ballad in a depressingly famil¬
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visit to the Faces' Ooh La La.
although it is still a second-
division song. Only once does
he truly hit the mark, with a
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together to raise a glass to die
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SHED SEVEN
Let It Ride

(Polydor 557 359 £15.99)

IN MUCH the same way that
the Charlatans were routinely
written off as a bunch of
workaday Madch ester also-
rans. irrespective of the quali¬
ty or success of their records,
so Shed Seven have been
consistently undervalued
thanks to their “failure" to
square up to the goliaths of
Britpop. But their last album.
A Maximum High, sold a
quarter of a million copies,
and their latest effort. Let It
Ride. may surprise those who
bother to give it a fair hearing.

For despite the trad, guitar-
band sound and casual, un¬
pretentious approach of pub-
rock songs such as Let It Ride
and the big-hearted road-
ballad Devil in Your Shoes.
there are plenty of strong,
thoughtful choruses and am¬
bitious arrangements, notably
on Return and The Heroes.
and the album as a whole has
an alert, uplifting feel.

It is very hard to make such
dyed-in-the-wool rock'n'roll
sound as fresh as this: a lot
easier to /dismiss h as old haL
Perhaps it is time to offer a bit
of encouragement instead.

BARRY ADAMSON

As Above So Below
(Mute CDSTUMM16I E15.49)
“I'M HERE to change the
total course of the world,"
Barry Adamson sings in a
deep grumble on What It
Means, a savage piece of high-
voltage. small-band swing
that defines the twin themes of
salvation and damnation that
dominate his new album. As
Above So Below.

He may not have changed
the world, but whereas
Adamson's pseudojazz-noir
soundtracks to imaginary
movies were once a novelty.

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Times can be ordered
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types (Massive Attack. Portis-
head) are injecting similar
elements of cinematic drama
into their music.

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as any of them, his appetite for
the seamier side of life appar¬
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greedy ... libido needy. Itn
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with salacious glee, and there
is nothing on this record that
suggests anything to the
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DAVID SANCHEZ

Obsession

(Columbia CK 69116)
DRAWING on classic com¬
positions from Brazil and
Cuba (plus US jazzman Ray
Bryant), as well as from his
native Puerto Rico, the
tenor/soprano player David
Sanchez has produced a
series of deeply respectful
but arresringly vigorous per¬
formances for this, his fourth
Columbia album.

His core band — pianist
Edsel Gomez, bassist John
Benitez, drummer Adam
Cruz, plus percussionists
Pfcmell Saturnine and Richie
Flores — are occasionally
supplemented by elegantly
tasteful arrangements by
Carlos Franzeui. bui whatev¬
er the forces around him.
Sanchez combines, in his
rhapsodic, rich, full-bodied

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sound, the straight-ahead
bustle of jazz with the rhyth¬
mic subtlety of Latin music
in a wholly convincing and
beguiling manner.

GARY THOMAS

Pariah's Pariah
(Winter & Winter 910 033-2)
IN MORE than a decade of
recordings as a leader, the
Baltimore-born reedsman
Gary Thomas has provided
a tour d'horizon of contem¬
porary jazz styles, from rap
anti funk to interpretations
of standards, all drawing on
anything from Malcolm X
slogans to urban sci-fi to
underline his musical mess¬
age.

Sharing frontline duties
on this, his first Winter &

Winter release, with alto
player Greg Osby. their;
cliatty duo improvisations.
propelled by the lithe bass of,
Michael Formanek and die
funldly tumbling drums ■ of--
John Arnold, Thomas has;
settled for the dry, restless
sound associated with F lft- -
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gutsy tenor or unusually
powerful flute, Thomas e*
tablishes an impressive rajF
port with Osby. and injects,
more life into his own com-'
positions than their sane-
what flat-sounding theme,;
statements promise. A£l'
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sound is best experienceA-
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Who needs the big labels?

From
maj or to
minor

Paul Sexton on the recording
artists who are beating the big
record labels at their own game

F or every marriage be¬
tween artist and giant
recording corporation
that brings mutual
happiness, countless others
end in messy divorce. For
those musicians who attempt
to keep therr careers alive on
an independent budget, the
reduction in circumstances
can be traumatic and fatal. For
them, how strange the change
from major label to minor.

While the likes of George
Michael and The Artist For¬
merly Known For His Talent
have played out high-profile
battles with their paymasters
over creative ownership, less
feted talents have been Gght-
ing for their future with a linle
direct-marketing savvy and a
lot of elbow grease.

Ani Di Franco has achieved
her folk-punk notoriety by her
own rules, having
started her Right¬
eous Babe label at
the age of 20 and
sold close to a mil¬
lion records in the
US in the past sev¬
en years without
the supposed bene¬
fit of a major-label
infrastructure. Her
American fan dub
is now 40,000
9 strong. Here. Di-

Franco's records ______

are licensed to
Cooking Vinyl, the modest but
respected independent label to
which XTC turned after a
protracted and acrimonious
departure from their long-time
home at Virgin.

Last week, the Welsh singer-
songwriter Martyn Joseph re¬
leased Tangled Souls , his
second album for the indie
label Grapevine, which rou¬
tinely achieves healthy sales
for a rosier that also includes
Emmylou Harris. Christy
Moore and Mary Black with
the use of assiduous database
marketing and a specialist
approach beyond the ken of
many majors.

Joseph came to prominence
v : in 1992 on Sony Music's Epic

label, but for all the width of
their wallet and some early
chart success, his career is in
ruder health in his current,
more modest surroundings.
Epic signed Joseph after he
sold close to 30.000 copies of a
self-financed album at his own
concerts and through special¬
ist shops and mail order. With
rich irony, the album he then
made for the major. Being
There, sold far fewer copies.

“My manager used to tell
people l was the only guy who
took a drop in income to sign
with a major label," laughs the
affable Joseph, who neverthe¬
less stresses his gratitude for
the platform they provided.
“When you sign with a big

C You’re
measured
on how
much
theyVe
spent?

A!

nother act making a
bold fist of their post¬
major period are the
.New Zealand band
the Mutton Birds. Touted for
ten minutes by Virgin as. the
new Crowded House, they
actually managed to double
their sales base during their
time with the label. But in an
age when artisr development
fights the sell-em-quick-or-
move-them-on mentality, the
group were “let go" a few
months ago.

“Bands are quite fragile
things." says the Mutton
Birds' frontman and songwrit¬
er, Don McGlashan. "Money
talks pretty loud, and if some¬
one’s given you a bunch of if,
and they look very likely to
withdraw their support at a
moment’s notice, then all of
that good glue that keeps a
band together can get pretty
thin."

Thankfully, the band's inter¬

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company, you're suddenly cat¬
apulted into a world that's so
different. Suddenly you're
miking about making an al¬
bum with an unlimited bud¬
get. and you just think, wow.
this is great."

Sony spent ES5.000 on the
video fur Joseph's Top 40 hit.
Dolphins Make Me Cry. He
says: "The burden on your
balance, next time they come
to decide whether they're
going to keep you on. is
enormous — that's £85,000 for
a four-and-a-half-minute film
that got shown twice. You’re
bring measured on hcrw much
money they've spent, not what
your potential is."

Joseph’s deal with Grape¬
vine is cut from more durable
4 eIoth. He leases them his
albums, receiving advances on
commencement and delivery.

and while benefit¬
ing from their dis¬
tribution and
marketing, is also
free to market his
music with his
own. highly per¬
sonal services.

“When 1 signed
with Sony, f had a
mailing list of
about 4,500 people,
which I handled
myself. As a result
s ____ of all the support
tours 1 did, where
we put postcards on the seats,
by the time I left Sony I had a
mailing list of 15.000.

"So. influenced by Tom
Robinson . who had a mailing
list called the Castaway Club. 1
slanted one up called the
Passport Queue. I charge £5 a
year, and for that they get four
really nice magazines, a free
gift for signing, and other bits
and pieces, and it enables me
to top in touch."

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Direct-marketing savvy and elbow grease: Ani DiFranco and Martyn Joseph

The yolk in the
egg-white of life

If EUiott Smith’s an Oscar-nominated songwriter,
where are his orchestra and 17 producers?

O utside, the air is
rain. The sky is a
terrible yellow. The
pavements are soaked right
through to black. Inside, the
rcstauranr is painted the
colour of Spanish oranges,
and filled with bowls of
crumpled poppies. The
shiny, swollen samovar
steams quietly in the comer.
The customers are glossy-
haired London cosmopoli¬
tans; expensive sensible
shoes and expansive band
gestures. They air-knit as
they chat. 'This is a
warm place. A dry place. A
cheery place. A non-smok¬
ing place.

We are standing outside,
under the broken awning.
EUiott is smoking a cigar¬
ette. hands all cupped and
furtive. Interestingly, we are
finding, broken awnings
aren't merely the absence of
awningse they are negative-
awnings, anti-awnings.
They funneL They funnel
drips so large that to call
them “drips" seems prissy
and shy. These are big blobs
of pond; huge ovoid bathfuls
of ploppy. droppy flood.
Each one smacks the head;
flattens the hair; causes the
eyebrows to flow in an
uncomfortable downwards
direction; dents the eye¬
lashes.

Save for the odd awk¬
wardly running office girL
trying to save her hairspray
with an Evening Standard,
the streets are deserted. A
street-deaner rolls by: a
sudden sucking rush at the
gutters, and then a fading,
comforting hum. We watch
it come. We watch it go. My
hair gets a bit worse. EUiott*s
cigarette goes out
“This is an EUiott Smith
moment isn't it?" 1 say to
Elliott Smith- “Yeah, I guess
so," he says. And then he
gives a little shy. creeping
smile. Smith neariy'won an
Oscar for being good at
Elliott Smith moments. Five

of his songs are used in
Good Will Hunting, one of
there. Miss Misery, was
nominated as Best Original
Song. An Oscar-nominated
songwriter.

You just don't meet Oscar-
nominaled songwriters who
aren’t Celine Dion. And.
unlike Dion, her I? produc¬
ers and her hysterical 1.600-
piece orchestra. Miss
Misery, like all Smith songs,
is just Smith and his guitar.
Finger-picked Nick Drake
melancholia. Vague coun¬
try-folk, washed in inky blue
bfucs; like Simon and
Garfunke! trying to be Big
Stars. And on his new

CATTLIN

MORAN

album. Either/Or. that
stonecHxit-wired. midsum¬
mer pre-dawn White Album
feeling. “I like to write songs
watching the TV with the
sound turned down. It adds
to that... dreamlike air," he
explains.

Smith is also a ppagon of
aural space manipulation:
fate sound hangs isolated,
suspended. Like a rich,
dense yolk surrounded by
an egg-white of white-noise
and soft ambient hiss. His
voice is just a breathy whis¬
per. It’s Kke having an
Oscar-nominated invisible
friend in your wardrobe,
singing you to sleep.

“Well, 1 used to have to
shout against the... rock...
in my old band, the unla-
mented US rockthing.
Heatmiser,” he says. “So

when J went solo. 1 suppose
the relief of being able to
sing real quiet and kind of.
personal, just son of..

Smith was brought up in
Texas p bare hot places")
and moved to the dripping
conifers of Ponland. Oregon
when he was 15. WhiL
I leatmiser were pretty much
ignored, his solo albums,
EUiott Smith and Roman
Candle, gathered press
squeal mgs and a warm pub¬
lic greeting. When Ileal-
miser got a major-label deal,
however. Smith wak obliged
to tour with a band he no
longer cared for. A year and
a half ago. the band implod¬
ed at the same time as his
relationship with his girl¬
friend. and Smith moved to
New York, where he didn’t
know' a soul.

“It was already a bad
time, so (thought I’d make it
worse." he says, a huge
raindrop exploding on his
shabby brown anorak. “It
was a mental phase 1 knew
I’d have to have at some
point so I just wanted to
make it intense but quick,
rather than dragging it
out"

H e drank, read Tol¬
stoy and Dos¬
toevsky. and went
out to gigs by little bands in
dank cellars every night as
sure a way to stoke misery’s
fever as wrapping yourself
up in a sleeping bag and
sleeping jammed up be¬
tween two radiators.

"And then 1 suddenly got
bored of drinking... and I
got back together with my
girlfriend," he smiles again,
still shy. “That’s why this
album is more upbeat than
the others." He gives
another grin — wicked this
time.

“You weren’t expecting a
happy ending from me.
were you?"

• Eilher/Or is out on Monday
on Domino Records

nal adhesive is holding well.
The Mutton Birds are now
successfully running their
own show. "We’re now play¬
ing to audiences greater than
when the Mutton Birds were
signed to Virgin," says their
manager. Steve Hedges.

Expending creative energy
on such a defiant stand cer¬
tainly beats waiting for big
record companies to change
their spots. “With a major."
says Hedges, “you’re dealing
with a rich unde who will
decide when he’s going to give
you something and when he
tent And you may get written
out of the will at any point."

m Martyn Joseph’s Passport
Queue: PO Box 37. Penarth.
Vale of Glamorgan. CFM
IEN. The Mutton Birds: PO
Bax 10936. London. N2 9WH.
Tfiey play the Point, Oxford.
tonight; Moles. Bath, tomor¬
row: Blackheath Concert
Halls on Sunday; and the LA2
in London on Wednesday.

i\:f sanded sd. T!n ^

Through
a purple
haze

A n overpowering fug of
marijuana smoke hung
over Brixton Academy
for the all-day Essential
Reggae Festival, but through
the haze a fascinating over¬
view of the stale of contempo¬
rary reggae emerged. In the
foyer the sound system tradi¬
tion was beamingly represent¬
ed by Jah Sbaka, mixing
heavy trance-like dub and

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crazed sound effects, while
upstairs internationalism was
displayed in dub-laced DJ sets
from British Asian acts Joi and
Asian Dub Foundation, and
the eclectic fusions of
Transglobal Underground.

On the main stage Levi
Roots and Earl (6 presented
routine roots reggae fare.
Starky Ban ton and Macka B
represented the more modem
developments of ragga and
dancehall, heavily influenced
by American rap (although
arguably hip-hop was origi¬
nally inspired by the Jamaican
Toasters). The Birmingham-
based Macka B are widely
regarded as one of the most
articulate and witty practitio¬
ners. yet their two raps were
merely crude and dreary.

Augustus Pablo is a Jamai¬
can legend whose strange dub
sounds and eerie playing of
the melodica shaped the 1970s
roots reggae movement If his
style seemed dated, there was
an undeniable spiritual quali¬
ty lacking elsewhere.

The other legend on view
was Lee "Scratch" Perry, at the
very heart of Jamaican music
for 40 years. These days he is
notably eccentric, pacing the
stage m a series of strange
hopping steps while his qua¬
vering voice sounded almost
like a novelty ad

it fell to a non>Jamalcan act
to produce the event* high
point. Lucky Dube, the
dread locked South African
reggae singer, turned in easily
the most professional and
dynamic performance — a
compelling example of how
the best black music can cross-
pollinate between its African
roots and Caribbean trans¬
plantation. and then return.

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Blair embraces Magazine Woman

. AMOflE CAMARA __«.*Wn»nAiTflnd»

Dawn Bebe is
advising
Downing
Street on
women.
Interview by
Carol Midgley

L ast month Tony Blair
was host at an eve¬
ning reception in his
apartment in Down¬
ing Street. It was a serious
affair, far less glitzy than the
Prime Minister’s Cool Britan¬
nia shindigs, at which cham¬
pagne is conspicuously con¬
sumed with the likes of Noel
Gallagher and Harry Enfield.

This time the guests were
not celebrities but the editors
of Britain’s women's maga¬
zines. New Labour, they were
told, was anxious to talk to the
modem woman. One or those
editors. Dawn B£be of New
Woman . was later invited
back for a second meeting at
which she briefed Blair and
his advisers, all eager to learn
about Britain's many maga¬
zines and their different
readerships.

The Government’s moves,
B6be believes, herald its det¬
ermination to use such tides as
New Woman, Cosmopolitan.
Elle and Marie Claire as a
direct line to women. The
editors were told that the
Government wanted more in-
depth and balanced reports of
its policies than it tends to get
from newspapers.

If this is so. Blair is clearly
untroubled by a recent report
from the Social Affairs Unit
which berated women’s maga¬
zines for nurturing a “depress¬
ing culture of trivia, sdf-
obsession and sexual aggres¬
sion”. The right-wing think-
tank lamented that there was
“coarseness, savagery and
voyeurism in the monotonous¬
ly sexual language of Maga¬
zine Woman".

Indeed. Downing Street’s
derision to invite back Ms
Bebe. whose magazine prides
itself on its earthy, irreverent

Dawn B6be. the Editor of New Woman who was called to Downing Street, believes that women are turning away from tabloid newspapers but remain loyal to magazines

approach and each month
boasts a regular “Weird Willy”
spot indicates that Blair is
more than willing to embrace
the liberated world of Maga¬
zine Woman.

During the general election
campaign. Labour advertised
extensively in women’s maga¬
zines and. soon after her
husband came to power,
Cherie Booth edited an edition
of Prima magazine. This
month Blair, interviewed by
Eva magazine, talks about the
difficulty of giving his children
a normal life in Downing
Street.

Bebe, 32, whose magazine
last week won die Periodical
Publishers Association's Con¬
sumer Magazine of the Year
award, says: “I think the
Government has realised that
magazines are an extremely
influential means of talking to
women. JThe Government
knows women] have an awful
lot of power and influence.
Women are starting to turn
away from tabloid newspa¬
pers, but they are staying with
magazines.

“The reception was a way of
opening up the channels of
communication between them

and us. The
Conserva-’
tives didn't
work in the
same way.

Labour has a
lot of female
MPs and I
think it is try¬
ing to have a

more democratic and personal
approach to us, although of
course we are all journalists
and we have to keep a degree
of journalistic scepticism."

During their soiree, the
editors spoke to ministers,
including Harriet Hannan

and Tessa
Jewel I. "Each
one was keen
to say “We
have lots of
good inten¬
tions. and we
are very keen
that people
should know
about them’," BCbe says. “I got
the impression they thought
their message was sometimes
sensationalised by the tab¬
loids. and they wanted to use
us to get it across as well. They
were very interested in issues
such as lone parenting, child¬

care and women's health and
how we dealt with it in the
magazines." •

BCbe outlined to her hosts
some new research, the “quali¬
ty of readership” survey,
which says a reader will pick
up the some magazine from
two to eight times and read it
thoroughly. “It is all about the
depth of the read, compared to
a newspaper, which will prob¬
ably get thrown away at the
end of the day.

“When someone has paid £2
for a magazine, they want
something that is beautifully
produced that they can keep

going back to. They want it to
be a real treat and a bit of a
laugh as well as being factual¬
ly informative. That is why
that Social Affairs Unit report
was so off-beam.

“Magazines are supposed to
be entertaining, they are an
indulgence. In the past 20
years the definition of being a
real woman seems to have
become being an intellectual
woman to some people. But
the trick is knowing your
reader, and our readers want
a laugh as well as being
informed about serious issues.

"I spoke to one of the people

who wrote that report and they
admitted that they had never,
read New Woman. I thought
that was pretty poo r for a so-
called authoritative report on
the women's magazine"

market" ' .

BSbe, former Editor of Bliss,
Emapis glossy monthly for '
teenage girls, took over at New .
Woman in 1996, when the
magazine was degenerating ,
mto frumpiness. The last issuer
before she joined sold 175,000
copies. Now it regularly $&s
about 270.000. . • .

-We basically threw it m the -.
bin and started again and
aimed to make it more gutsy
and modem and irreverent
We brought in a new design
and made it much mqre,
glamorous. Then we defined..
our target as the woman, with.^
responsibilities and i'
hangover.

“We asked what were all foe
lifestyle issues confronting & :
modem woman — lovv-
friends, money, work,.iKW§; -
health — but derided to come
at it from a humorous pomfqf -.
view. We are down-to-earfiv'
not too idealistic or rernqvaf t
from the reader. I think (kir
strength is that we talk to than
in their own language which,'-
believe it or noL is unique,'^-
magazines.

“Women are being offered •
more choice in their lives iha£. f
at any other time. There is to . .
much choice it is almost;,
bewildering. They can get'
married but they don't have toi"
they can have kids but they
don't have to. they can have a;
career but they don! have"ta
Our challenge is to try to" ■
address all these issuesr.btft" ;
without being didactic -or- :
patronising."

While some magazines:'.
might trill “Look gorgeous for
Christmas”. New Woman''
would more modestly say
“Look half decent for Christ¬
mas”. she says. “We are much ,
more realistic and it has
worked.”

This month’s New Woman 4
tantalises the reader by offer- --
mg to decode their sex dreams. •>:'
teli them how. to “bust them.;
beUy" and provide some effect- - •'
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friends. A copy is winging its
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Aid agencies are angry that, despite efforts to make the reporting of humanitarian crises more sophisticated, the same old images of helpless African victims are broadcast

Is this aid pornography?

F ew who watched it will ever
forget Michael Buerk’s pow¬
erful report, with unbear¬
ably moving footage of ema¬
ciated adults and dying children,
from Ethiopia in 1984. His broadcast
brought the terrible reality of famine
into the front rooms of the Western
world, and galvanised an appeal dial
raised mfllions for famine relief.

The assumption at the time was
that the relationship between tele¬
vision and aid organisations could
only be beneficial. The media provid¬
ed the publicity and raised support
for relief groups dedicated to alleviat¬
ing the suffering.

More than a decade later, the faces
of the hungry in southern Sudan
have returned to our television
screens, but the relationship between
the media and aid organisations has
soured. In The Guardian this week,
George Alagiah, the BBC Africa
correspondent, accused aid agencies
of creating a conspiracy of silence
about the extent of the Sudanese
situation. They had decided, he said,
that despite his graphs footage, the
crisis did not merit a national appeal.
He also accused the agencies of
“news management" and of becom¬
ing too hierarchical to listen to their
workers in the field. In turn, aid
agencies have claimed that Alagiah's
reports from Sudan for the BBCs
Nine O'Clock News are out or
context Many are angered that
despite efforts to make the reporting
of humanitarian crises more sophisn-
cated. the same old images of helpless
victims in Africa arc being broadcast.

Journalists and aid agencies must forge a difficult alliance
during humanitarian crises, Bridget Harrison reports

Ron McCullagh, a reporter who
spent eight days in Sudan preparing
a report for Channel 4 News, broad¬
cast two weeks ago. claims that much
televirion coverge of Sudan has been
shallow and lacking m content. "A lot
of people have described some of the
news reports as aid pornography. I
would agree with them,” he says.

Memories are still raw _____
among those who worked
in Rwanda and during the
subsequent refugee crisis
in the GreaT Lakes region
in 1996-97. With hind¬
sight, both groups real¬
ised that they made a lot
of mistakes. The media
accused aid agencies of
speculating about and ex¬
aggerating deathrates,
and of having supported
the genoddal forces in the
refugee camps. The agen-
des, in turn, blamed the
media for filing partial and distorted
reports in which facts had not been
checked; for “parachuting in" jour¬
nalists who had no fundamental
understanding of the crisis; and for
failing fo report the fate of thousands
of refugees missing in eastern Zaire.

During a complex crisis, the alli¬
ance forged between journalists and
aid agendes is usually necessary but
fraught For journalists, aid agendes
often provide the easiest form of

The relief
effort was
only one
component
of the
crisis’

access to a disaster area, are usually
the source of the most up-to-date
information, and can provide protec¬
tion and facilities in the field. Further¬
more, for viewers and readers back
home, it is the difficult agency work
in the field that provides the most
obvious narrative Tor a news story.

The pressure on aid agendes to
keep their activities high-
profile. and thereby sus¬
tain donor support from
both governments and in¬
dividuals. has made char¬
ities increasingly aware of
the media. Although this
symbiotic relationship
has worked effectively, de¬
velopments during the
Nineties have strained re¬
lations. Yesterday senior
journalists and represen¬
tatives from leading aid

_ agendes attended a con-

' ference in London — “Dis¬

patches from Disaster Zones" — to
discuss the reporting of major
emergencies.

Nik Cowing, an experienced war
correspondent, prepared a back¬
ground paper for the conference on
the management of information on
the eastern Zaire crisis in 1996-97. It
identified the pressure on broadcast¬
ers of “real-time" technology which
allows virtually immediate access to
correspondenLs in the field, and noted

the proliferation of channels screen¬
ing broadcasts day or night These
factors make accurate media cover¬
age more difficult for both journalists
and aid agencies. When Buerk made
his trip to Ethiopia, he had ah entire
plane journey in which to polish his
report But during the Rwanda crisis,
one BBC correspondent talked of
haring to file live reports up to 30
times a day to feed a 24-hour news
cycle, which makes access to new
information a constant demand.

Such pressure allows a corres¬
pondent virtually no time for “report¬
ing" and checking. In Zaire in 1996,
aid agencies accused the media of
creating “a frenzy of speculation".

T he media in turn com¬
plained of being used by
rival agendes so desperate
for publicity that they manu¬
factured information. In addition to
the scope for inaccurades, aid agen¬
des and journalists also, complain
that bulletins averaging 50 to 90
seconds give little scope for dispatch¬
es to be placed in context In
Gowing's report. Fergai Keane, the
BBC news correspondent, describes a
TV reporter as becoming “a pack
donkey, capable of bearing huge
loads but braying a foriom gibberish
every time he opens his mouth".

Combine these pressures with a
crisis situation, where journalists are

already operating within a politically
complex environment under severe
physical and psychological pres¬
sures, and it is not difficult to see how
relations can be strained.

Added to this, another, perhaps
more sinister, revelation came out of
the Great Lakes experience.
Gowing’s report suggests that war¬
ring factions are becoming increas¬
ingly information-savvy, and were
able to manipulate the information
used by journalists and agendes.

This is a grim reminder that any
intervention in a humanitarian crisis,
including the exchange of informa¬
tion that accompanies it, will have a
political as well as humanitarian
effect Don Reeding, the conference
co-ordinator, who represents the ten
UK humanitarian organisations in¬
volved, says that the biggest mistake
made in Rwanda was to depict the
crisis as a lawless outpouring of
andent tribal hatreds, instead of the
the politically organised genocide
that it was. "In Rwanda, the refugee
crisis became a purely humanitarian
story, but the relief effort was only
one component of the crisis."

To prevent mistakes such as this
happening again, he and Gowing
emphasise the imperative of moving
away from the traditional Template"
of how large-scale disasters are
portrayed — through “human-relief"
stories — instead of as the political
stories that they invariably are.

“When we go into southern Su¬
dan," he says, “we must be talking
about what is spedfic about Sudan,
not generic about starving Africans."

Spin on Japan

T he veteran cricket
writer E.W. Swan-
ton. who was a Japa¬
nese prisoner in die Second
World War and worked on
the infamous Burma-Siam
Railway, wrote an article
for The Daily Telegraph on
Wednesday in which he
pointed out that the survi¬
vors who turned their backs
on Emperor Akihito of
Japan this week were a
minority.

The majority kept their
thoughts to themselves, he
said, and the Lord’s Prayer
made the Christian’s hard
duty of forgiveness plain.
Swanton cited the example
of Eric Lomax, whose
award-winning book. The
Railway Man, described
his suffering under the
Japanese but also how he
had subsequently been rec¬
onciled with his chief tor¬
turer. It is a harrowing
book that few could read
without concluding that
there conies a time when we

Jem ess continued on Wed¬
nesday, when the old sol¬
diers who protested in The
Mall were again featured
across all the tabloid from
pages. “How can we ever
forget?" said The Sun. “Si¬
lent But unbowed, said the
Daily Mail

Given the horrifying suf¬
fering of Japan's prisoners,
that is a difficult question —
and there are other awk¬
ward as well as difficult
questions, too. One was
raised by Stephen Glover in
the Daily Mail: why, if
Japan’s manufacturers ap¬
pear precisely to grasp our
needs as consumers of cars,
cannot their politicians
have a better understand¬
ing of the more profound 1
feelings of the heart?

Another was John Kee¬
gan in The Daily Tele¬
graph . Since Japan’s ruling
class had adopted an anti¬
war culture lifter 1945. he
asked, why was it so diffi¬
cult now to go the extra mile

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PAPER ROUND

have to bury the pasL When
1 spoke to Lomax this week
(he is reflecting in The
Times tomorrow on attend¬
ing dinner with the Emper¬
or). he shared Swanton’s
view. The men who turned
their backs on the Emperor
represented only 2 per cent
of the prisoners, he said.
What about the silent
majority?

Yet it is the vociferous
minority who have been the
focus of almost every news
story this week, certainly in
most of the tabloids —
which raises the question of
whether editors should lead
or foflow public opinion
and, indeed, whether their
assessments of public opin¬
ion or what interests the
public are correct Several
newspapers this week have
added fuel to flames that
surely ought now to be
doused.

O n Monday night
Tony Blair showed
proper political
leadership when be ap¬
pealed fora warm welcome
for Emperor Akihito dur¬
ing his visit Now, study the
spin put on Blair’s appeal.
Unsurprisingly nowadays;
The Express reported it
straight- “Blair backs the
Emperor", ic said, adding
inside: “Blair offers hand of
friendship to Japan". The
Sun gave Blair a full page
to make his argument that
Japan is a major investor in
Britain, providing more
than 65,000 jobs.

Elsewhere, the spin
played to that vociferous
minority. The Daily Mail
turned the stoty round and
headlined its report:
“Angry PoWs attack Blair".

So did The Mirror.
“What price our heroes
Tony?", it asked as it devot¬
ed two pages to stories of
Japanese torture. That bit-

and fully apologise for the
anti-Western culture of the
1930s?

Two newspapers stood
out from the pack in pro¬
moting reconciliation. The
words that amounted to the
Emperor's apology were
published across eight col¬
umns at the top of die front
page of The Times. Its
headline (note the last two
words) said: "A day of
protest and reconciliation."
There was also a picture of
a smiling Burma Railway
survivor showing his med¬
als to a Japanese mother
and child, and a leading
article arguing that ffie
Emperor's mission was un¬
mistakably one of concil¬
iation.

The Independent, how¬
ever, was the only news-

S per to argue the case for
•giving and forgetting.
“Tune and crime have
moved on." it argued- It
also published an article tty
John Casey, the Cambridge
doa who suggested that the
British were turning into
“rather a small people" by
remembering the past so
selectively and visiting the
sins of the father upon the
son's blameless head.

At 28, Alison Roberts had
the best answer, in the
Evening Standard, to the
attention given to the vocif¬
erous minority. She repre¬
sented the post-postwar
generation, she said, and
wondered when an older
generation was going to
stop going on about the
war. Venerable newspaper
columnists had crudely in¬
sulted a foreign visitor who
had nothing to do with
atrocities 50 years ago.

She made a good point —
and aren't newspaper edi¬
tors supposed to be trying
to attract young readers?
Most certainly forgot about
them this week.

Pay now, view later for digital dream

■ BBC governors are steel¬
ing themselves to ask for a
large increase in the licence
fee to ensure tha t the corpora¬
tion can flourish in the new
digital age. It may seem a bit
rich to ordinary viewers who.
since April 1. pay a £97.50 fee
— up from £91.50 last year.
But the rise, based on the
retail prices index plus 3 per
cent, is exceptional and de¬
signed to produce an extra
OOOmfllion for its digital
ambitions. Tie BBC natural¬
ly believes it provides excel¬
lent value — though very few
homes benefit from new ser¬
vices such as News 24. Une
key problem is that me
corporation's commercial
side has failed to prosper.
Secondly, a flat-rate levy
bears heavily on the poo r -
Thirdly. a big rise will drain
away cash from new pay-as-
you-view services, also pari
of the digital future.

■ THE case for a new BBC
deal could be helped by a

change at the top. It’s com¬
mon knowledge that Chris
Smith, the Culture. Media
and Sport Secretary, is less
than effusive in his praise for
the current order. And that
Labour, in opposition, was
sharply critical of the ap¬
pointment of the Chairman.
Sir Christopher Bland. But
after Smith’s address to the
governors' annual summit
last week, the BBC played a
master stroke: Sir Richard
Eyre, the respected former
director of the National The¬
atre and a BBC governor,
was given the floor to defend
its track record.

Meanwhile, most broad¬
casters now believe Lord Put-
mam. openly hostile towards
the Birt-Bland regime, will
shortly be confirmed as depu¬
ty chairman of the BBC.
plaving a key role in selecting
Biri's replacement. It is wide¬
ly rumoured that Birt asked
for an extension beyond
March 2001 but was turned
down. He is telling spin-

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The Human Body

doctors to undertine the
message that he is staying on
right to the bitter end.

■ THE BBC’s case surely
cant be helped by the dire
new series. The Human
Body. This week’s episode
featuring narrator Lord Win¬
ston in a storm-lashed boat,
empathising with an unborn
foetus, was atrocious — and
made me feel queasy. It
descended into bathos, when
after filming the birth of a
baity girl in Britain, it ran a
series of round-the-world
shots of mothers and babies,
bom at the same time: an
adaptation of that hoary local
newspaper tecJmique, find¬
ing the first baby bom as the
new year dawns. I suspect
that the BBC included this
sequence to raise internation¬
al sales.

■ THE broadcaster and

writer Trevor Phillips is cer¬
tainly enjoying a PR blitz.
The producer of The
Windrush can do no wrong.
He is being touted as poten¬
tial mayor of London and
favourably interviewed
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wherever he ventures. Next
Monday he becomes the first
black TV personality to give
the annual Royal Television
Society Fleming Lecture. His
message will be suitably
sane: that British television
has made huge strides in
including all sections of soci¬
ety. though the future with
endless digital channels is
not so assured.

“Jumble sale television
endlessly recycling old stuff”
will form his warning. But
nothing to prick the Phillips
bubble in that.

But even as Phillips lec¬
tures on Monday, ITV wiU be
demonstrating that it doesn’t

need the excuse of digital to
go' rummaging. Do you re¬
member Hollywood Women .
the Carlton series that
launched a new genre in
shock docs? “A couple of
weeks ago 1 didn’t have a
neck The fact that these days
I have is just making me fwrl
so happy," says Roseanne, in
next week’s compilation —
The Best of Hollywood
Women.

The odd thing is that, five
years on. the series dubbed
as rubbish is now seen as
“groundbreaking" in its use
of fast-cutting techniques re¬
placing commentary. Its
makers, September Films,
are currently putting togeth¬
er yet another version, The
Truth About Footballers.
taking viewers into the per¬
sonal lives of former soccer
stars.

“It is designed to interest
women; they all live in such
awful houses — but without
mortgages. It is so unfair,"
moans an executive involved.

■ I WORKED happily with the journalist Nick Cohen in the
good days of The Independent when he was a fine reporter.
Which makes me wonder what on earth has happened to this
clever man since moving to The Observer as a columnist. In
last week's New Statesman he pens a blast about the death of
serious newspaper reporting. He is basically correct — though
his statistics (unsourced) sound dodgy to me—but his writing
style is peculiar. Sample: "This is not the place for a discussion
of the crypto-conservative philosophy of Post-Modernism,” he
writes. "Funnily enough, there are not many discussions of
Post-Modernism in Fleet Street newsrooms."

How true. Swallow the prescription. Nick, go back to honest
reporting.

Media minnow nets
on-screen sales deal

An electronic system to sell radio advertising aims to
offer more efficient trading, Raymond Snoddy reports

M ediaTek a small,
specialist informa¬
tion provider to the
British media industry, has
beaten off nine big rivals such
as Reuters and leading adver¬
tising agendes to win a con¬
tract to create a national
electronic system to sell radio
advertising.

The brief is to create an
electronic trading system be¬
tween buyers and sellers of
radio airtime. If will allow
media planners to brief sales¬
men electronically, complete
the deal on screen, and pro¬
vide confirmation that adver¬
tisers have got the advertising
slots they have paid for.

“Radio has often been criti¬
cised for taking 15 per cent of a
media buyer's time for 5 per
cent of their budget," says
Justin Sampson of the Radio
Advertising Bureau (RAB), the
body set up to promote the
commercial radio industiy-
The new system, named
■ficrrt. will, Sampson hopes,
remove that disparity between
time and expenditure. On
Wednesday he went to
MediaTek office: in Soho
with the largest cheque the
RAB had ever written.

He says MediaTel won the
<xmtracr because the company
showed £-d ear understanding

of the advertising industry and
the likely difficulties that
might arise, together with a
clear vision on how the system
could continue to be enhanced
and developed.

The new Internet-based sys¬
tem should be up and running
by the end of this year or early
next and the RAB hopes that it
wifi give an additional boost to
radio advertising, which total¬
led £365 million in the year to
rhe end of March — an
increase of £46 million over
the previous 12-month period.

The deal will also be a boost
for MediaTel. a small, inde¬
pendent company with a turn¬
over of more than £1 million a
year which provides a range of
media information to most of
the big players in Britain.

MediaTel is run by Derek
Jones, whose late father Bob. a
former media director of
BMP, founded the company. If
has used the Internet to offer
vast quantities of media infor¬
mation to its 112 subscribers.

Jones hopes that if the
creation of Jicrii goes accord¬
ing to plan, MedTel will run
the system for the radio indus¬
try on a continuing basis.

Apart from providing eight
years of media stories search¬
able by keyword, MediaTel
has a press database covering

4.400 tides and provides five to
ten trends on everything from
readership to circulation.

Users can also do a lot of
their own calculations. If an
advertiser wants a profile of
all the media available within
15 minutes’ drive from Cam¬
bridge, for example, the sys¬
tem provides it. “We are
adding demographic data and
retail locations shortly." Jones
says.

The television database pro¬
vides everything from the
latest viewing trends and ad¬
vertising revenues by station
plus overnight ratings for key
events and programmes.

One of the company’s
databases — Media Village —
is largely open to non-sub¬
scribers and provides a media
net community bringing to¬
gether sites from organ¬
isations such as the Institute of
Practitioners in Advertising,
the National Readership Sur¬
vey and market research org¬
anisations such as AGB.

As well as implementing
JicriL Jones is considering
adding moving pictures to his
service. It would be useful, he
thinks, for advertisers to be
able to log on to promotional
clips of television programmes
where they are about to place
their advertising. V

THF. TIMES FPTHAY MAY 291998

v. y

Steamed
up over
greens

Vegetables are sexy and we are going
to prove it, says the Vegetarian
Society. Virginia Matthews reports

V egetarian food is to be message about how the mear-frs
given a sexy new image diet can improve your sex dm
in the first cinema ad for and your intellectual powers, a
the Vegetarian Society, well as gaining extra vitality an

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V egetarian food is to be
given a sexy new image
in the first cinema ad for
the Vegetarian Society,
to be released nationwide next
week.

The ad highlights what the
society calls the sensual side of
food — preparation and eating in
a steamy kitchen — and tackles
head-on the sometimes staid im¬
age of vegetarianism with hedo¬
nistic, and heavily symbolic,
scenes of kneading, railing and
tasting.

The dose-ups of as- _

pa ra^us tips. figs, car-
rots and chillies. TllC

interspersed with just
the eyes, lips and thin

hands of those prepar¬
ing them, are de- WR 1

signed to inject colour vv a
and glamour into A,

what many see as the
drabness of the meat-
free diet. They are also *1”

to remind meat-eaters
that practically all the pc(

food credited with
aphrodisiac qualities
— inducting celery, carrots, fennel
and ginger — is vegetarian.

The society calls the commer¬
cial. aimed predominantly at a
youth audience, the first step
towards genuine food
consciousness.

While the suggestive theme will
be compared inevitably to the
direction taken by Haagen-Dazs.
the company that injected adult
sexuality into the asexual world of
ice-cream. Chris Dessent, a Vege¬
tarian Society spokesman, em¬
phasises that it is more tongue-in-
cheek. “We do have a serious

The last
thing we
want to
do is
hector
people

message about how the meat-free
diet can improve your sex drive
and your intellectual powers, as
well as gaining extra vitality and
zesr for life. But the last thing we
want to do is hector people about
vegetables being good for them;
we are hoping that by overdoing
the sexy veggie bit. the ad will be
taken in a humorous way as well.

“We’ve all heard the jokes
about weedy vegetarians being
asexual and eating nothing but
boring nut cutlets and brown rice;
now it's time to turn the tables

_ and tell people that a

' meat-free diet is both
last sensual and even

glamorous; after all,
j mg some of the sexiest

3 Hollywood stars, in¬
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L L ' J and Kim Basinger, are

:« vegetarian.” But there

is also compelling evi-
hor dence to suggest that

LUr vegetarians are less

I likely to suffer from

PIC atherosclerosis, one of

the key causes of im¬
potence.

The cinema campaign, which is
being run in assodation with the
Co-operative Bank, is the
centrepiece of next week's Nat¬
ional Vegetarian Week. Vegfest
98, a celebration of everything
from the veggie burger to the
meat-free roast

This years £150.000-plus pro¬
motional budget for Vegfest
marks the society’s biggest mar¬
keting spend and reflects the
efforts of the vegetarian move¬
ment to become more main¬
stream. While the true cost of the
ad and supporting promotions

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would top £250.000. many of the
marketing and media advisers
involved are working either free
or at reduced rates.

The society's income comes
from fundraising and sponsor¬
ship deals, including a tie-up with
HarperCoIlins, which is publish¬
ing a new vegetarian recipe book.
The V licencing symbol, which
now appears on hundreds of
products from margarines and a
vegetarian haggis to savoury rice,
dogfood and a gelatine-free digi¬
tal camera, also brings in cash.

With more than 5,000 people
becoming vegetarian each week

— the overall figure is 3.5 million,
according to Gallup — and many
more cutting down their meat
consumption, the business oppor¬
tunities are legion. All the leading
supermarkets stock vegetarian
versions of their top-selling ready
meals, while manufacturers such
as Birds Eye Walls believe that
vegetarianism poses the food
industry’s biggest challenge. The
market research house Min tel
claims that the vegetarian busi¬
ness is the industry's fastest-
growing sector.

While the vegetarian move¬
ment has been accused of using

shock tactics to get its point
across, its tack today is decidedly
more gentle. With an NOP survey
earlier this month concluding
that 79 per cent of adults believe
vegetarian food to be more varied
and interesting now. the society is
focusing on the taste of the meat-
free diet, rather than on the more
extreme animal welfare politics.

The Vegfest will also hammer
home the message that vegetari¬
ans are cleverer than carnivores.
Among vegetarians to be spot¬
lighted are Plato. Pythagoras.
Mahatma Gandhi, Leonardo da
Vinci and Einstein.

T here has been more than a
touch of xenophobia hanging
in the air these past few days.
It started with the Panorama pro¬
gramme on the plight of the two
nurses recently released by Saudi
Arabia, which turned out to be a
rather strange edition.

At its heart there was an undoubt¬
ed scoop — the first interview with
Deborah Party, broadcast even
before her appearance in the pages
of her paymaster. The Express. The
fact that the programme appeared to
give an uncritical view of proceed¬
ings from the point of view of Party
and her erstwhile colleague. Lucille
McLauchlan. has already been com¬
mented on. Indeed, it is a universal
danger of scoops and chequebook
journalism that once a
newspaper or tele- etse
vision programme has
obtained its valuable r Jgjr: '/■

property, it is hardly -

likely to spend much
time questioning its /
validity.

But it was the recon- f} : ’• .-/j’j

structions that really i w/k:

stood out They were
properly labelled as
such and. of course, the
programme-makers
were trying to give the
flavour of alleged
abuse, threats and mal¬
treatment Yet there was something
distasteful, almost sleazy, about the
portrayal. It may be that the stereo¬
typical policemen — caught from
improbable camera angles and look¬
ing threatening and unshaven, with
cigarettes hanging from their lips —
amount to a true representation of
what happened. It came over, how¬
ever, as something from a very bad
B movie, yet managed to convey a
visceral emotional impression that
foreigners are serious baddies.

In a completely different context,
there was a whiff of xenophobia, or
at least hysteria, about some of the
coverage of the visit of Emperor
AJdhito and the protests by foe
former prisoners of war. There is no
doubt that their protest was a valid
story: it was foe extent to which the
event was allowed to dominate the
media that should raise a few
questions.

The tone of foe (average is
strident and foe accompanying edi¬
torials even more abusive. Not all

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Robertson - the movie

For the first time, the
MoD has let cameras
record military
changes. Charles
Miller filmed them

Sly fox impaled on
a prickly hedgehog

The Culture Committee’s report on the regulation
of broadcasting has failed to understand the
television revolution, says Peter Ibbotson

L abours Strategic Defence Review
— reorganising the Armed Forces
for the next century — will be
published as soon as it has been
agreed by the Cabinet, probablv before
Parliament's summer recess. And for the
first time, the ministry allowed Qmtras jo
record a miliiary reorganisation. The
BBC was given access to many meetings
at which the size and shape of the Forces
were argued through by ministers, civil
servants and military' chiefs.

The resulting film. A Paper War. ol
which 1 was the producer, will he shown
on Sunday: a bonus for us was the
agreement reached with the MoD that we
could transmit the programme ahead of
publication of the review. The programme
cant claim an exclusive, since the Cabinet
could overturn the MoD's recommenda¬
tions. But wc have made a series of
educated guesses about the results, which
will inevitably be a mixed bag. Pluses are
likely to include improved deployability
for the forces, with a new Joint Repatria¬
tion Force, the formation of an air cavalry
bridgade and measures to improve work¬
ing life for service personnel. Minuses
would be cuts in the number of reserves,
in the Navy's frigate fleet and the number
of ranks in active use.

Media access of this kind is, by its
nature, a symbiotic relationship, the
programme-maker gets a programme,
and the people being filmed get to be seen
on television. — for whatever reason they
desire. The. deal was to allow the
programme-maker enough freedom to
have a reasonable chance of filming
something interesting, and those being
filmed enough comro) to make them
confident that at least pan of what is
shown is whai they .want to be seen.

(n our case, it was a simple enough
deal: we ask permission to come in on
every occasion; if permission is granted,
we are accompanied by a press officer at
all times. The finished programme is seen
by rhe MoD before transmission. It can
censor any part of it on security grounds,
and is allowed to advise on matters of
factual accuracy. But beyond that, it
recognises the BBC’s right to editorial
control.

On the whole, the arrangements
worked smoothly. Only occasionally were
we reminded of our unusual situation,
filming events that normally would be
considered off-Jimits for outsiders, let
alone those with cameras .and
microphones.

We were filming a rather grand MoD
event, the Defence Council, at which all
three Service chiefs and the top officials of
the MoD were meeting the Defence
Ministers to discuss the structure of the
Forces. While someone else was speaking.
Lord Gilbert the Minister for Defence
Procurement, who never looked especially
pleased to see us. started whispering to
George Robertson, the Secretary of State,
while looking anxiously at me. Robertson,
who was chairing the meeting, interrupt¬
ed the business to allow Gilbert to speak:
“I'm sorry."Gilbert said, “but I wanted to
check what you were filming, because the
camera wasn't on the person who was
speaking. You weren’t filming secret
documents, were you?"

I explained that I was shooting “cut¬
aways" — shots of other people listening,
which would allow us to edit the sequence
together. He appeared to think this was a

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George Robertson, the Secretary of State for Defence who chaired Labour’s Strategic Defence Review, outside the MoD

particularly implausible excuse, but Rob¬
ertson accepted it and said they should
resume the meeting. The more media-
friendly Minister for the Armed Forces.
Dr John Reid, muttered mischievously:
“Cany on filming, Vladimir."

During our year in rhe MoD, in which
we filmed 38 meetings, most of our
subjects, thankfully, did not pay us much
attention. There are just two of us. Sarah
Harrison, the assistant producer and
sound recordist, and myself, as producer
and camera operator. The camera is small
enough not to be taken too seriously, and
can retard for up to three hours without
needing a change of tape.

1 would not claim that we have filmed
everything interesting that has happened
on the Defence Review. Indeed, we were
often acutely aware that there was much
horse-trading going on between meetings.
One meeting, on the future of aircraft
carriers, was postponed nine times before
we were able to film it Many of those
changes were at such short notice that
twice we were summoned to the MoD.
only to hear our press officer discover that
the meeting had once again been
rescheduled.

Many of those meetings were utterly
real but also mind^numbingly boring.
The boring meetings, of course, didn't

make it into the final programme. Even
the most high-minded programme-maker
(such as myself) is biased towards
incident, emotion, and conflict In the
event there were some instances of the
individual Services fighting their comer
vigorously; that meeting about aircraft
carriers was a case in point But to
everyone's credit (and perhaps a degree of
muted disappointment on my part), the
review has been carried out in a rather
more sophisticated atmosphere, above the
inter-Service bickering that characterised
similar exercises in previous decades.

Nevertheless, there has been conflict
and I make no apology for highlighting it
The MoD is a culture, indeed a whole
world, of its own. Most of what was
discussed at the meetings we filmed
would be meaningless to outsiders. Often
we weren’t briefed on the subjects, and
after a couple of hours, Sarah and 1 would
come out of a meeting with quite different
ideas about what we had filmed.

The MoD treated us fairly throughout
our relationship even when we asked to
transmit ahead of publication of the
review (which was not the original
agreement). One consequence of our
request was that we had to hold a viewing
for all its main participants — rather a
horrifying prospect In (act the occasion.

with the Secretary of State flanked by the
Chief of the Defence Staff, the Ftermanent
Under-Secretary and other MoD figures,
was more like watching a home video
than the tense inquisition 1 had been
expecting. Once again, John Reid came to
our rescue in setting the tone as he
sauntered into the room: “Right, take your
seats. It’s ‘Robertson — the Movie'."

• A Paper War will he shown on BBC2 on
Sunday at 8pm.

I saiah Berlin famously divided us into
the foxes — who know many small
things — and the hedgehogs — who
know one big thing. To judge from its
report on The Multi-Media Revolution,
there can be no doubt that Gerald
Kaufman's House of Commons Culture
Comminee is a fully paid-up hedgehog.

The report starts with the big idea that
the technological convergence of broad¬
casting. telecommunications and comput¬
ing is an accelerating and unstoppable
global phenomenon. It finishes with the
big conclusion that the “alphabet soup” of
regulatory bodies covering these activities
- the ITC. Oftel. BSC. OFT. even the BBC
— should be merged into a single
Communications Regulation Commis¬
sion with powers aver all aspects of
broadcasting and communica- _____

dons, from technology to own- ""
ership to con lent. , , In

Unfortunately, big ideas of
this kind run the risk of irict
confusing what is technologi¬
cally possible with what, more
soberly, is likely to develop in L1UJJ
the altogether more complex rnrr
world of investment decisions wil.
and consumer preferences. __ r
“Mrs 1970 will have a robot to bCI
do the housework.” promised
the feature writers of 1955. No.
she didn't, but eventually the ______

robots built her a cheaper and ~~
better car. It is equally fanciful to accept
that “convergence is just around the
comer" and that a whole new world of
desktop broadcasting is imminent, with
the Internet offering “a new mode of
entertainment". Barbara Roche warned
the committee that “convergence is more a
technical than a marker phenomenon".
BSkyB and BREMA. wiiidi both have a
commercial interest in the outcome,
advised that computing and viewing are
likely to remain distinct activities. Unde¬
terred, the committee went to the West
Coast of America, where the high priests
of computing proved, unsurprisingly, to
be "much more forward-looking”.

None of this would matter much if it did
not obscure the real and immediate
challenge facing broadcasting. The immi¬
nent pressure is coming from the rapid
multiplication of broadcast channels en¬
abled by digital technology, all vying for
the attention of die same, fixed (or
perhaps diminishing) amount of viewing
time, and constrained by the public's
untested willingness to pay the real price
for greater choice.

If the fragmentation of audiences runs
fester than the generation of new reve¬
nues, then broadcasters overall will have

In this
instance,
tidiness is
common
sense’s
enemy

less to spend per programme and per
channel. Worse, money will be diverted
from the creative processes. In this highly
competitive environment, commercial
prudence seeks known income drivers ino
surprise char new subscription film chan¬
nels are so frequently mooted), a riyhi
control of budgets and "an aversion io risk¬
taking.

Even if the promised convergence
revolution did create a limitless choice, ii
is not, like the competitive pressures
building up inside traditional broadcast¬
ing, lurking just around the comer. Nor is
it likely to produce the concentration of
revenues which sustain high broadcast¬
ing standards. The fantasy world in
which we each select our evening's
entertainment from hundreds of ihou-
_____ sands of high-quality pro¬

grammes available on the
Internet, or wherever, begs the
question of how they a re'to be
T1C0 paid for.

5 Twenty years from now.
ic tiiese questions may all he

answered. But rushing to cre-
nnn ate new structures such as the

1 iL/11 committee’s single overall reg-

„ p , c ula tor puts tomorrow's techno-

>c b logical can ahead of today s

consumer horse. Damian
my Green, MP, noted in his

______ dissenting opinion: “To have

” one body attempting to regu¬

late how much opera there is on Channel
4. and how much BT should charge
Internet providers for connecting to die
local loop, is absurd. In this instance,
tidiness is the enemy of common sense.”

We should have separate content and
commercial regulation. The Kaufman
committee^ report has many sensible
things to say about education and the
Internet; it has a keen awareness of the
value;of British production and film¬
making skills; and it has an ambition to
promote investment and employment in
tiie media.

I n the past 50 years, regulation has
largely proceeded according to the
fox's view of the world: evolutionary
rather than revolutionary, pragmatically
dealing with detail and consequence
rather than taking sweeping intellectual
overviews. The Jiiture ties in sustaining
the ability to fund and create new and
original programming for the broad
market not in the explosion of accessible
Websites, or simply filling the new hours
of broadcasting with an interminable
recycling of yesterday's product. This task
is one for the regulatory foxes, not for Mr
Kaufman's hedgehog.

Fop jbup company golf day

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Nicole’s fantasy wedding

■ THE bride's dress is by
Deborah Milner, her hair is
by Nicky Clarke. The Editor
of Taller, Jane Procter, has
pledged to cover the wed¬
ding, and Richard Young,
the celebrity photographer,
says he’s desperate to take
the photographs. But Tara
Palmer-Tomkinson has
warned the bride against
marriage.

All those mentioned above
have been roped in by Re¬
nault’s PR company. Beer
Davies, to puff (in print and
on air) the latest ad in the
Hugely successful Papa and
Nicole series for tire Clio.

It breaks tonight, and the
script has Nicole marrying a
mystery Brit. Renault has
guarded the ad as if it were
the Crown Jewels. Ii would
be churlish to give away the
secret. To find out who, tune
in at 7:40 tonight during
Coronation Street. .

Millions will. The Clio »s
one of the most successful car
campaigns ever. It consis¬
tently scores the highest
prompted and unprompted
recall figures in the car. or
almost any other sector, with
figures that have touched an
astonishing 93 per cent
prompted recall.

The campaign has kept the
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Anita Pincas on
the high-tech
alternative
to education
action zones

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Steve Parish on the problems of limiting class numbers

Forget size - give
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T he Government's
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zones are to be rest-
beds for innovation.
RadicaJ ideas to raise stan¬
dards of teaching and leamino
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businesses are to play a key
role — whit* ministers hope
will mean meeting the cost of
the experiment.

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nounced later this month.
Prominent among the radical
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school days and shorter holi¬
days. It is almost as if David
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far-sighted and effective way
forward. Local businesses are
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tive partnerships in many
areas, bringing information
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ogy into the classroom, with
encouraging results.

The Government has failed
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the virtual classroom, which
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some ways better than — ihe
real thing. Although it has
pledged to connect every
school to the Internet, the
Government continues to
think of it in limited terms, as
little more than a source of
information.

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education from such technol¬
ogy are in e-mail — primarily
because it promotes inter¬
action between students and
teachers in useful ways. But its
potential is not yet fully
understood.

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The Government’s technology programme for schools offers a more radical, far-sighted and effective way forward

E xperiments with e-
maii and with video
links have been in
operation in spots
around Britain for years now.
The message — that such
technology is viable, useful
and now cheap enough to be
widely used — appears not to
have "filtered through to those
in control of education.

1 have 25 students who have
not yet met each other — that
comes later in the course—but
who are studying together in a
very personal, enjoyable and
fruitful way by e-mail- At the
end of last term one of them
wrote: “I think this is the right
moment to tell you how much
I have enjoyed the course, and
how good it has been to know

that you and the rest of the
group were at the other end of
the Line all the rime."

How is it possible to run a
class by e-mail? You have to
ask yourself what makes a
class. Traditionally, we think
of the four walls of a room
inside "a building. Children
accept such classes as part of
their cultural expectation.
They know what schools are
for, and there is a ready-made
framework for lessons to take
place in.

You can achieve a similar
framework using e-mail. But
you must first focus on what
truly makes a classroom —
and it is not the four walls. It is
really that a group of learners
collaborate with each other
and are supported by a teach¬
er. It is quite possible to
achieve this using group e-
mail. by ensuring that every¬
one receives a copy of everyone
rise's messages.

The main principles for
successful group e-mail are
simple. It should be set up as

the e-mail equivalent of an
ordinary workshop, with
small tasks for everyone to do
and discuss in groups. As in a
traditional workshop, the
learners have to know enough
about each other to feel com¬
fortable working together.
Groups of 12 are about right,
but the pattern can work with
fewer. A class of 24 could be
divided into eights or sixes, all
doing the same things. They
should see clearly in advance
just what they are going to do.
The teacher ought to keep
quiet for a reasonable period,
then pull the discussion
together.

If the pupils know that it is
meant to be a workshop, not a
test, and if they have the early
help they need to get going,
then it is likely that they will
plunge in with enthusiasm.
Permission to have personal
chats by e-mail as well as
doing the work will help to
create good groups.

Certain aspects do take
some getting used to. For

example, the way an e-mail
message simply disappears
into the ethen or the experi¬
ence of “talking" without
being in direct contact with
your audience — and possibly
without even knowing who is
"listening"

The evidence is that e-mail
can encourage pupils to work
together more effectively than
they do in an ordinary class¬
room. By Mnail nobody can
dominate, so everyone gets a
chance. They can do the work
in their own way in their own
time, without the pressure of
the surrounding classroom.
They have a written record of
all work, so it is easy to refer
back to later.

The virtual classroom will,
of course, need e-mail for
everyone. But, that is already
one of the Government's goals.
It would make enormous
sense to combine the benefits
that group work is known to
bring to learning with the new
technologies, to inject fresh life
into our overcrowded class¬

rooms. By contrast, turning
back the clock by expanding
rigid four-walls teaching —
especially for older children —
is unlikely to be a recipe for
success.

• The author teaches 6y e-mail at
the Institute of Education, Univer¬
sity of London , where she is
developing the Future Learning
Centre (a-pinkcr&ioe.ac.uk)

I t is only a matter of time
before one of Labour’s
election pledges runs
into serious trouble. The idea
of reducing infant classes to
a maximum of 30 will be
unworkable without either a
huge injection of resources
or the introduction of the
fiercest policy of social plan¬
ning since the bussing of
children to enforce integra¬
tion in America."

Take, for example, a one-
form entry primary school
with, at present, an average
of 32 children in the infant
classes. There are no spare
classrooms and, if there
were, nobody is promising
that each year could split
into two classes of 16, each
with its own teacher.

The only options would be
to create four mixed-age
classes and open a mobile
classroom (at a capital cost
of, say, £25,000}, or build a
new classroom (costing three
times that). This would imm¬
ediately create 30 new places,
but 24 would be "spare"
places, which the Govern¬
ment wants to reduce.

Of course, two pupils each
year could be turned away to
the nearest school with spare
places. But which two? Not
the ones living farthest
away, but the ones who
moved into the area after the
application date,
or those who 'ilAPci
neyer applied- A
Court of Appeal
judgment means w- ^
councils cannot
reserve places
for children in
their nearest
school.

Since parental >

choice replaced fA

planning for H

places, it is a fa

common prob- jak

lem for a family fVl

to move to an f \
area and find
that the nearest m

school with va- ■_

canries is many
miles away. It is
often difficult

of rime enough for secondary pupils, hours a
.a hour's but who really wants four- by most
s runs year-olds bussed ten miles to er pupils
rhe idea find a school with a vacancy? budget
asses to Labour has hinted that small detemiu
will be rural schools, very expensive bers.Ye:
either a on a per pupil basis, may be class, bt;
sources protected to avoid just that. Don cla
of the Where several schools in have to I
al plan- an area all have a couple of do it.
sing of "extra" children and there is thei
incegra- are no nearby spare places, chairma
the likely way to deal with ing bod;
. a one- the problem will be for just qualms
school one school to have the exrra ents whe
average classroom. The education 30 to tell
? infant authority will deride which it we w
o spare school, and this will proba- and edu
f there bly be the biggest, where the the whe
musing impact of mixed-age teach- the Govi
Id split ing can be minimised. its pledg

6, each But our one-form entry funding
school will have lost six able (ass
ould be pupils — and £7.000 off its pilot bti
xed-age budget with no reduction in much a:
mobile expenditure. Will the author- infant c
cal cost ity have funds to cushion than 30.
build a that deficit, as well as pay for would t*
tg three the capital costs of building This
Id imm- new classrooms at the larger where a
'places, schools? educario

“spare" It is hard to criticise show g
Govern- Labour's good intentions. In that wou
l America. President Clinton go into l

its each proposes infant class sizes of rooms ct
away to IS, but there will be no to empli
h spare plaudits if a well-intentioned assistant
/o? Not long-term aim is achieved could m
farthest quickly by an increase in all three
s who mixed-age classes, or by reception
liter the young children spending This i

"To smennut; ama> a
ytMomwc Ptmmf i cmtfr

seeiheziAxmpDToMr-o.

hours a week travelling, or
by most schools haring few¬
er pupils and facing effective
budget cuts in a formula
determined by pupil num¬
bers. Yes. there can be 30 in a
class, but the full-time recep¬
tion class assistant might
have to be made pan-time to
do il¬
ls there a way oui? As the
chairman of a school govern¬
ing body. 1 would have no
qualms about going to par¬
ents who expect a class size of
30 to tell them that to achieve
it we would be financially
and educationally damaging
the whole school. Instead,
the Government could relax
its pledge to say that extra
funding is being made avail¬
able (assuming it is. since the
pilot budgets do not give
much assurance) to achieve
infant classes of no more
than 30. but that exceptions
would be allowed.

This would mean that,
where a school and the local
education authority can
show good cause, money
that would otherwise have to
go into building extra class¬
rooms could be used instead
to employ more classroom
assistants. In our school, that
could mean an assistant in
all three years, not just in the
reception class.

This is a pledge too far.
The Govern-
B7) A ment should

admit it now and
'JItOnT do the sensible

• thing — funding

••• and training

k classroom as-

si stan ts rather
| than rushing

J through disrup-

live changes
simply in order
=3^-1 not to be seen to

~i--j fell in one of its

key manifesto
gSjw pledges.

TIT • The author

\ I chairs the g ov-

i \ l- eming body of a

Church of Eng-
land primary
school.

Day in the life of a head boy

W hen Hugh Carson, a
52-year-old head¬
master. attended a
morning roll call at his school
recently, the teacher read out
his name and he replied
“Present”. None of die pupils
thought this strange.

For Mr Carson, the newly
appointed head of Malvern,
was starting a day of “shad¬
owing" a schoolboy, following
him from breakfast to supper,
from classroom to sports field,
visiting his study and eating
lunch with him.

Mr Carson began this novel
practice to “get some idea of
what it is like to be on the
receiving end, as it were". He
says: “I learnt all sorts of little
things that were very helpful.
For example, this morning I
paced it out as I walked from
my study to the boys' house. Jt
is 437 yards.

“This means if I ask a pupil
to come to see me. the rou nd
trip is almost half a mile- Its
good For me to realise this, if
he has to do something in the
technology department, by
the time he has walked round
all his other lessons he has
probably covered a mile
altogether."

The boy picked to be shad¬
owed was a 14 -year-old caned
Alex Templeton-Ward. a pu¬
pil in the Remove. “I asked
the housemaster to select
someone who could cope and
who wouldn’t be too fazed- He
chose very well. It is artificial.
I realise that If you’ve got
your headmaster on your
shoulder all the time, you can
never forget it"

The day began at house No
7. the only school house
outside Malvern’s campus-
Edward Elgar once frvefl
* arrived there

Shadowing a student taught Hugh
Carson a lot. Bruce Kemble reports

Masterclass: Hugh Carson and Alex Templeton-Ward

to greet me." Mr Carson says, spirit very well’. There is no
"They joked a bit about me threat to anyone. The whole
being a new boy coming into thing is meant to be me
thehoiise looking at the school seeing

“I was a little thrown by one what we are doing and wheth-
incidenu There was another er we can do things a bit
knu who was late back from better.

holidays. They sort of Templeton-Ward'slfrstMa-
Imhushed him as he arrived, demic lesson was English
""S? Sme time 1 did. 1 literature. The master asked
a J oil- -Am 1 being am- ihe class to examine how
It was lively but not Tennyson celebrated strength
h neier crossed of character and Wanbrav-
50 SJnn intervene. ery in three poems: Ulysses,

•"^Therfwe had registration The Charge of the Light
when the housemaster Brigade and The Revenge.
and whe ear mv M r Carson sat next to Temple-

JThere ton^aidinlhislesson,
name ^ , had , 0 The English master treat-

wasn 1 3 i ihoufliu This is cd me as if I were invisible
an ^ er ^.L.-!l picked up the and did not ask me any

questions, although l
wouldn't have minded if he
had," Mr Carson says. “After¬
wards I gave Alex E2 to buy
his friends some Mars bars in
the tuck shop [known as The
Grub}. 1 felt sorry for him,
having me round him all
day."

Mr Carson admits that he
had “cheated" a bit by nipping
back to his study to sign some
papers before driving his car
to rejoin Templeton-Ward for
a technology lesson. Then it
was lunchtime and again they
sat together. “There was a
senior boy al the top of the
table, making sure we all
behaved," Mr Carson says.
They chatted about footbalL
Mr Carson had a mixed grift,
followed by a chocolate pud¬
ding with custard, “it was
wicked stuff," he says. “All the
sort of tilings I'm not allowed
at home."

Alex Templeton-Ward.
whose elder brother also goes
to Malvern, says: “I thought it
might be quite challenging to
keep up a conversation
throughout the day. I also
thought it might be quite a
good opportunity to get to
know my headmaster. I was
always conscious of the head
being by my side. In technol¬
ogy he helped me to choose a
project because 1 didn’t have
any ideas whatsoever and
then he helped my friends.

“Later we played squash
and he beat me 108 but i
think he was being quite
chivalrous. I think shadowing
is a good idea. It made him
find out what it’s like to be in
our shoes. Perhaps since he
was surprised al bow far it
was from his study to my
house he might consider mak¬
ing rhe morning half-hour
break longer,"

SATURDAY.
ANYTHING
BUT A DAY
OF REST.

SPORT

Vision

Weekend

metro

THE

TIMES

48 SPORT

THE TIMES FRIDAY MAY 29 1998

JZ _■ ur_ll_ i- waves acrossth e world! booked for Derby

Victoria Walker

meets a fast
girl who leaves
rivals trailing
in her wake

RiA PICKARD has undoubt¬
edly earned her sobriquet. The
Pocket Rocket The power of
the aqua bike on which she has
made such an instant impres¬
sion belies the stature of a
slight 15-year-old, yet already
she has taken on the best in the
world and beaten them ar
their own game, jet sport
At just 5ft 5in and 7st she
has earned a reputation for
having no fear as she powers
through the surf at average
speeds of between 50 and
GOmph on a jet-propelled
machine with no dutch, gear
or brakes, bruising a few egos
in the process. For, in her first
full season of adult racing, she
is taking the world by storm,
literally surging to the front of
the field.

Two months ago she took
on allcomers in a race of the
world's top men at the Israeli
resort of Eilat and beat them
all. One of only two females in
the race and the youngest
competitor, she was able to
push her 785cc aqua bike into
first position despite being up
against machines of superior
power at I200cc. Her win was
made all the more sweet by the
fact that the man she beat into
second place was the world
speed record-holder, her
father. Alan, 39.

This weekend, she will be
attempting to repeat her
breathtaking performance in
the first round of the Royal
Yachting Association national
championship at Milton
Keynes. The three-round
championship will also take
her to her home practice
water, Rother Valley Country
fcrk. in Rotherham, for the
second leg on June 20 and 21
and to Holme Pierrcpom. in
Nottinghamshire, for the final
on August 15 and 16.

Her confidence seems un-
shakeable and was underlined
in her first race of the British
season; at Tatters hail Country
Park, in the first round of the
British jet sports champion¬
ship, she won with ease.

The Pickards train together,
race together and. when ques¬
tioned about her win in Eilat,
her father smiled and admit-

Pickard’s love of aquabike racing has quickly propelled her among the elite of the sport

ted: “Yes. and 1 even tuned her
engine for her." A hands-on
engineer, he employs complex
computer technology — equiv¬
alent to that used by the
Williams Formula One team
— to fine-tune the torque and

test the performance of the
engines. They travel to all
events as a family, with her
mother. Jane. 36. and her
sister, Hollye, 12. acting as

honorary pit crew.

Ria’s trail into aquabike

The 15-year-old’s power on the water belies her tender years

racing was blazed by her
father, who came into the
sport in 1987 from competition
motocross. “I had been racing
in moto-cross for about nine
years." Alan said. "But after a
having had a lot of broken
bones. I thought I would try
something else. And after II
years of jet sport racing, I have
not broken a single bone".

With a daughter in the
sport, he was quick to stress
the safety features of aquabike
racing and turned his mach¬
ine upside down to demon¬
strate its flat bottom.
“Although they are powered
by jet propulsion, there is no
outboard motor or propeller.”
he said. In addition to this,
each jet bike has a cut-off
switch attached to a lanyard,
which is. in turn, attached to
the racer's wrist. Should the

TIMES

racer fell off his bike, the
lanyard automatically cuts off
the power, instantly shutting
off theengine and stopping Che
bike.”

Jet sport competitions are
comparable to motorcycle rac¬
ing on water- The bikes are
raced in three classes, solo,
sport and runabout The solo
class comprises stand-up
bikes with an engine capacity
of up to 785cc. Sport has sit-
down bikes with one to two
seats and the same engine size
as solo. Runabout is the most
popular dass. featuring the
larger bikes with engines up to
I 200 cc and two to three-seat
bikes, though they are raced
by single competitors.

Ria’s bike has a two-stroke
162bhp engine with 102 ilbs of
torque and can accelerate
from 0-50mph in three sec¬
onds. Controlling such a pow¬
erful machine, particularly in
rough wafer, can be exhaust¬
ing. To build strength and
stamina, Ria*s routine in¬
dudes circuit training and

'After having seen
the thrill
of her father
competing,
she was hooked’

cardiovascular work-outs in
the gym. as well as weekend
practice sessions on her bike.

Despite being around jet
sport racers from the age of 4,
(the family went to all of Alan
Pickard’s races) and having
her own watercraft from 7.
Ria only started racing when
she turned 12. After having
seen the thrill of her father
c o m p e tin g in a big event in
the United States, she was
hooked and went on to win her
first junior race.

Even though she missed the
first two rounds of adult
racing last season (she only
turned 14 and qualified as an
adult midway through the
year) she still managed to
come second in the British
pro-am ladies runabout dass.
Yet she has set her sights far
beyond the national champi¬
onships. She plans to race in
the International Jet Sports
Boating Association Euro¬
pean Tour this summer and
her aim is to finish in the top
three in the world finals at
Lake Havasu City, Arizona, in
October. Judging by her
present form, that is a modest
goal.

BARRY HILLS, the Lam-
bourn trainer, has booked
Darryll Holland to ride The
Glow-Worm in the Vodafone
Derby at Epsom tomorrow
week. U will be the first time
that Holland has partnered
the son of Doyotrn in public

A best-priced 40-1 for the
premier classic, The Glow-
Worm is the only course and
distance winner in the field,
having taken the Blue Riband
Trial at the Epsom spring
meeting last month. He ran
another fine race when failing
by a short head to.catch
r; ill lan d in the Chester Vase
three weeks ago.

Hills has yet to train the
winner of the Derby, but he
has saddled the runner-up

By Our Racing Staff

four times—Rbeingrrid (1972),
Hawaiian Sound (1978), Gla¬
cial Storm 0988) and Blue
Stag (1990).

Holland rode the 1504 out¬
sider, Blues Traveller, into
third place for the Lamboum
trainer behind Commander
In Chief five years ago.

With Sir Mark Prescott
announcing that Pasternak,
last season's Cambridgeshire
winner, will not run in the
Royal Hunt Cup at Royal
Ascot on June 17, his stable
supporter s quickly latched
onto RudimentaL another of
his contenders for the mile
handicap.

Coral reported some size¬
able bets and cut the four-
year-old to 12-1 favourite, from

16-L The Ed Dunlop-trained
Bold Words was also in
demand - life odds being
reduced to 16-1 (&®m 25-1).

Central park w as yest erday
announced as a surprise ac¬
ceptor for Sunday’s French
Derby at Chantffly, and the
Barking firm has introduced
die Godolphin-owned colt

into its betting at 25-L

William Hnl reports good
support for the Paul Cofe-
irained Courteous in tbeDer-
by and has reduced his odds
to 20-1 (from 254).

□ Richard Hannon had a
profitable trip to Brighton
yesterday. The East Everieigh
trainer saddled a 2864 treble
with Dfllkmaire, MaieUaand
Sizzling.

YESTERDAY S RESULTS

Brighton

Going; firm

2.10 (9 21M) 1. OMonelrs (R Hughes.
11-8 Im): 2. Captain MBer {10-11; 3. Ewanny
(4-1). 6 ran. JW. 51 R Hannon. Tote El 90;
El. 10. (5.70. OF. £1260. CSF Cl601

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South (the dealer) starts by announcing that he has IS points.
West has 9, North 10 and East 3. North-South have 28 {13-10)
and Easi-West 12 (9+3). so North-South are the declaring
side. South has more than North so he becomes declarer.

At this point dummy is put down. i.e. North puts his cards
face up on the table. These should be arranged tidily, one
card half behind another, in four columns, one for each suit,
as I illustrated in the article two weeks ago.

Declarer now considers the two hands together and decides
if he warns to select a suit to be trumps or if he should play in
No-Trumps. In general, and certainly to start with, you should
count the number of cards in your combined longest suit. Here
you hare seven spades, six hearts, six diamonds and seven
clubs. If your longest suit is eight cards or more, you should
choose trail as trumps (with two suits the same length choose
the one containing the most points), otherwise choose No-
Trumps. So, South announces that he will play in No-Trumps.

It is now up to West, the hand on declarer’s left, to make
the opening lead. i.e. to play the first card to the first trick.
When defending against No-Trumps it usually works best to
lead your longest suit. And if you hare an honour sequence
in that suit (as West does) you should lead the top of it. Here
West leads the queen of diamonds.

South's aim is to win as many tricks as possible. On this deal
he should make four tricks in spades, three tricks in hearts and
two in diamonds. Note that he can make four tricks in spades
because he has four cards in the suit and he has the ace. king,
queen and jack. Provided he plays only one of those honours to
each trick he will make four tricks. However, in hearts he only
has three-card suits and. although he also has the ace, king,
queen and jack, he can only ever make three tricks because at
some time tut) of his honours will fail on the same trick.

Before reading further, play out the hand as declarer and
see how many tricks you can make. \ will return to this hand
next week.

C You can get the second five lessons by sending five 26p
stamps to me at The Times. 1 Pennington St. London El 9XN.
Mark the envelope ‘Bridge Lessons’.

WORD-WATCHING

By Philip Howard

CHANGING TIMES

SIEROZEM

a. An honorific title

b. Poor soil

c. Foot boxing

ST1NKOMALEE

a. Hot curry

b. Eastern perfumes

c. London University

WEHMUT

a. German marines

b. Sadness

c. A world view
STELK

a. To gnilloch a deer

b. A coarse grass

c Ffotato and onion mess

Answers on page 54

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Scaiheixxy W, *1A Jlml Tote £29 70;
£5.10, El .70. Cl 20. DF. £91.98 CSF:
Cl 70.49 Tito: £22600.

3.10 (71214yd) i. Melon) (F Norton, 11-4
f»): 2. SnaSsr Crtrtr (12-1); 3. Mendoza
(16-1). 14 ran. NR Raptt 2KI, M. M
Haaton-EAs Tots- a56T £220. £5.70.
£8.10 DF £28.00 Tito. £174.30. CSF:
£3622. Tncasfc £44493.

3.40 dm 31196yd) 1. Maleia (Dane 0*Nea.
16-1): a Htonbury Legend (9-1): 1 Aegean
Broca (7-1) Hantaan 4-1 fav. 14 tan. Hd.
a FI Hamon Tote Cl 7.70; £3 00. £390,
£220. OF: Cl6628. Tiw Cl6870 CSF:
£129.71 TrtcasC El 003.75

4.10 (71214yd) 1. Soft Touch (T Oukm. 3-1):
2. Flame Tower (1 M); 3. Miss HUstoe ®-i 1
lev). 5 ran 1*1.2*1 Mbs G Kaflaway. Tcxu
0.00. £1.70.£230DF £5.80 CSF-E2862.

4.40 [51 213yd) 1. S&zflng (Dene DNe*.

19-1): 2. Mataderfe (9-1): 3.1 Cned Fa You
(4-1 tav) 11 ran. If. M. R Hamon Tote
£7 JO: £2 70. E3 10. £2.50 DF. £42.40 Tno:
£21.90 CSF £96.56 TncasJ- 01008
JuamanuB (toned second but after a
stewards' tnqtey mss placed fourth.
Ptaoepot £487.00 r*—£ 56.60.

Ayr

Going: good to hm

Tala: £4.00: £220.

£1320 CSP £26.17.

725 tlm 2t 6ycB 1. Konker (L Dettori, 7-4
taj;2.Tiye(7Sa Ma^Morpert) 00-1).

230 (3m 21 ch) 1. Prussia <M A

£19.60. CSF: £5 48

£120 OF: £2600 CSF: £10129
220 (51) 1. HBtona Executive (L Chamocfc,

£130, £3.30. DF: £57 38 Trio: £119.48
CSF: £57.78. Tricest £481 61.

320 (1m) T. Khatos (K Falon. Evans lav;
Richard Evans's nap); 2. Nigra Fiver (7-21:
3. Bnda'a Answer (4-1). s ran. 1W. II. B
H«s. Tote £1 00: £118 £2.70 DF: £3.10
CSF £377.

850 (71) 1. Redoubtable (A Cuitana. 7-1):
2, Akniwnm (10030 taw): 3. Nomore Mr
Moeguy (4-1) 10 ran Sh hd. *1 D
Chapman Tote £958 E2.G0. £1.28 £1 80
DF: £1720 Tito. E3B70. CSF: £2837
Tricast £10164.

420 (1m 3) 1. PraphBs Pride (0 Peers.
16-1): Z Eager Haro (20-1): 3. Shap
Shooter (B-il Last Lap 6^ (av. 8 ran NR
Bedd OuesL 3*r. sfthd p Mortal th Tore.
E24.EC. £250. £4 50, £100. DF. £11490
CSF: £220.96. Tray £223.60.

3.00 (an Me) 1. ShaJtooor (M Retards.
9-1); Ssokfar M&fc (11-1): 3. Stem Action
(20-1): 4, Heart (B-IJ. Baranov 5-1 lav. 16
ran. DM. ill MrsPRobeson. Tola: £12.40:
£3.10. El .60. £490. £198 DF: £9050.
CSF: E98.48 Tricast £190498, Trio:
£368.70.

330 (&n 51 ch) 1. Super Rapier (R
Johnson, Evens tev): 2. Rustic Air (5-1): 3.
Spart* UcM (16-1) 6 ran ill. Mi hd. G
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£398 CSF- £563.

4.00 (3m 110yd Mb) 1. Carat Orator (R
Johnson, 2-1 hw); 2, Sun Alert (5-2): 3.
Noantt* Air (5-1). 7 an. NR Wntewata.
W. 9IW Clay Tote £340: £1 70. £170
DF £2 70 CSF’ £7.44 TrtcaaL £1962
4.30 (2m 51 eh) 1. Joint Account (Mrs F
Needham, 11-2); 2, Uto n s town Lass
(100-30 (sv): 3. very Damg (40-1) 14 ran
14L Q Mrs F Needham. Tcta ES 20; £190,
£2 08 £11.50. DF: £1090. Trio: £297.10.
CSF E2099

5.00 (2m Hon 1, Chief WManeaU Magee.
14-1). Z Wide Awake (5-1): 1 Gteoal
Mbata (94 fav). 16 nan. 1)H 1L Mra S
Lanymen Tale: £1690: £290. £1.40,
£1.70. DF: £3550 Tria £7330. CSF:
£8075.

PtacepaC £29.10 Ouadpot £590.

Wednesday’s
late details

Tote £6.70: C2.MJ. E&0CK&30. DR
£13108 Trio: £556.10. CSF: £98.10
Tricast £196095.

Ptocepot £15798 Ouadpot £6498

Ripon

Going: good

840 eni. Gonvnr Lodge (G Carter. Evens
fav): (Mean (9-2): 3. Tous Lee

Joras OSH. 10 ran. a. 2W. J Berry. Tots:
£1.70:£120. £190. £138 DR £598 Trio:
£10 SO. CSF: ES.12

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1): Z Cherished (8-1): 3. Pu t w oo (66-1)^.
Shalyan *-S fcw. 11 ran. Hd. 1*1. J
Hoteton. Tola: £4.70: £198 £198
£2290. OF: £23.30. Trio: £23790. CSF:
£37.09.

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£190. £210. DF : £13240 Trio: £14498
CSF: £49.42. Tricast £16751.

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2 TskMd (12-1); 3. Dfepol Diamond (18lj:.
Antarctic Storm 9-2 |hbv. 10 ran. Sh M.

I ML EWeymes. Tote £998 £220. £420.
£3.80. DR £81.10. Trio: £13328 CSP:
£8474 Tncaat £79459.

840 (2m) 1. Nigel's lad (J Wb aura. 7-4 ’
kv); 2 Astro Lines (9^): 3. Spa Lane (4-1L -
10 ran. *L 1*1 P Haelam. Tala: t20&.
£198 £220. £2.10. DF: £520. Trim £398
CSF: £9.87. Tricast £26.19.

810 (1m 2f) 1. Dynamism (W Ryan. 11-10
lay); 2. Mawsoor (8-4); 3. Afemsn (14-1).

II ran 1*1. 2*?L H Ced Tola: £268
£1.10. £198 £260 DF: Cl BO Trio: £5.00.
CSF-£2 82.

Plaoepot ES7AQ. Quadpot £1998

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|| Sheehan on bridge

By Robert Sheehan, bridge correspondent

Begin Bridge with The Times: Lesson 7 - MiniBridge 2
So. it’s time to look at our first example. Make sure you have
a pack of cards (sorted into four suits) with you and make up
the following fair hands as North. East, South and West:

♦ AK4

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Keene on chess

By Raymond Keene

CHESS CORRESPONDENT

Level pegging

After three games of the
qualifying match between Vla¬
dimir Kramnik and Alexei
Shirov to determine the chal¬
lenger to Gany Kasparov
later this year, the score is
equal. The players have been
jousting carefully and probing
for weaknesses in the theoreti¬
cal lines they each favour.

White; Vladimir Kramnik
Black: Alexei Shirov

Candidates final
Game three. Cazorla 1998
Grunfdd Defence

1 d4 Nf6

2 C4 g6

3 Nc3 rfc

Diagram of final position

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Blade Alexei Shirov
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Game one, Cazorla 1998
Grunfdd Defence

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Draw speed

Times book

The Times Winning Moves 2
contains 240 chess ptizztes
from international patid*
master Raymond Keeneirdai*
[y column in The Times, anti is
available now from book¬
shops or from B. T. BaisSsrd'
Ltd ltd: 01376 321276 ar £69
plus postage and padting}-
□ Raymond Keene writes on
chess Monday to Friday in
Span and in the Weekend
section on Saturday.

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WINNING MOVE

By Raymond Keene

Black to play. This position is
from the game O’Donovan —
McShanc. Bunrattv. I 99 S.

Luke McShanc. "14, is one of
England brighicst prospects
How did he demonstrate his
tactical prowess in this
position?

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THE TIMES FRIDAY MAY 29 199S

SPORT 49

Chris McGrath finds no shortage of recruits embarking on a high-risk career

Volunteers eager to get into

H anging prominently ] "-—-----

in ihe bam of

D Wayne Lukas is a . .

H anging prominently
in ihe bam of
D Wa) 7 ie Lukas is a
notice lhat succinctly plots the
American trainer's path to the
peak of his profession. "The
chance of a lifetime, in a
lifetime of chance." Anj'onc
embarking on this precarious,
obsessive walk of life, makes
the same pact with Lady Luck
For a new trainer, hard work
is the only possible key to the
door — but there is no guaran¬
tee that it wilt fit the lock.

These unequal odds find
their most acute expression in

Nap: Coolin River
(8.55 Bath)

Coolin River lost his way last
season but a gelding operation
produced an improved effort
on his seasonal reappearance
15 days ago. He looks well
tasted and can oblige for the
in-form Karl Burke yard.

N B: Cornflower Fields
(8.25 Bath)

ifie accounts ledger, where the
need to entice owners with
competitive rates can yield a
suitably gorey red. Nonethe¬
less. there remains something
mesmeric to the routine, to the
daily coifing and uncoiling of a
handful of horses — an accre¬
tion of trust that one of them
can suddenly spring a stable
out of its anonymity.

Every year, the Jockey Club
approves 40 or 50 new li¬
cences. and there are as many
different foundations beneath
the names surfacing on race-
cards. Some, like those of
Gerard Butler and Marcus
Tregoning, have a depth that
brings a pressure of its own,
demanding some imposing
edifice. Others, such as that of

training

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A t the other end of the
spectrum is McNae,
renting half of Eimyn
Lodge in Epsom. McNae. 31.
spent two years with Nick
Uttmoden and a similar spell
with Joe Naughton before
taking the plunge himself two
months ago. He has already
filled 15 boxes by hard graft
and competitive training fees.

“Attention to detail and
good communication with my
owners are extremely impor¬
tant." he said. “So far I’ve been
fortunate to attract some good
quality horses, and I'm keen to
build on that."

Whatever their starring
point, these young people
must work from the same
premise. They can leave noth¬
ing to chance, because chance
already has too big a say in
their fives.

Butler, in his first season training, supervises his string in the picturesque surroundings of the Berkshire Downs

Angus McNae. start on a
smaller base, on which the
construction of anything ro¬
bust demands more attention.

Something fairly imposing
has already been built besides
the ancient Ridgeway, along
the crest of the Berkshire
Downs, where Butler has just
commenced his own journey
— with the lavish support of
Erik Penser, the Stockholm
merchant banker who has
raced various “Beauchamp"
horses here over the years.

Last August, there was noth¬

ing here but farmland; now
there is an airy. 38-box bam.
six furlongs of all-weather and
miles of historic, revived grass
gallops; a large indoor school,
a horsewalker and wages to
attract the best staff around.

Butler. 32, earned the run of
the place with a CV finking the
points of the raring world’s
compass — Colin Hayes in
Australia. Lukas himself.
Coolmnre and three seasons
as assistant to John Dunlop.
In his time at Arundel, the
Irishman was entrusted with

THUNDERER

6.25 Way Out Yonder. 6.55 Little Gem. 7.25
Hillswick. 7.55 Emperor Naheem. 8.25 Cornflower
Fields. 8.55 Coolin River.

GOING. GOOD TO FIRM SIS

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THUNDERER

6.10 Ordog Mor. 6.40 CuiHin Caper. 7.10 Jet Boys.
7A0 Last Option. 8.10 James Ptgg. 8.40 Balladur.

Carl Evans: 7.40 Double Thriller.

COURSE SPECIALISTS

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Bahhare, the champion juven¬
ile. and several of Hamdan af-
Maktoum's other young stars,
for a winter in Dubai.

Penser had an immediate
dividend. Butler saddled
Beauchamp King, just Ids
third runner, to win a fisted
race at Haydock earlier in the
month — though the benefit lo
his reputation, in rejuvenating
a horse lhat had apparently
gone sour, was rather squan¬
dered by the BBC’s subse¬
quent reference to Butler as
Periser's "private trainer".

For while everything else is
in place, there are just IS
horses in the ham — mostly
juveniles, with whom Butler
will resist any impatient temp¬
tation to get going before time.
Even with ail his advantages,
then, he faces the new trainer's
perennial goal: winners,
which are needed lo attract
owners.

“It was time to cash every¬
thing in. to take a deep breath
and make my own mistakes,"
Butler said. "This is nor a job.
A job is a three-letter word.

THUNDERER

2.00 Tamara. 2 UO Charlies Bride. 3.00 Brodessa.
3.30 Such Boldness. 4DO Super Geil. 4.30 Royal
Dome.

GOING' GOOD TO FIRM SIS

DRAW 5F-7F, LOW NUMBERS BEST

2.00 STAPLETON MAIDEN AUCTION FILLIES
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>0 4 PfSM OF L0NDU8H 18 M CaW 8-1-A Mtebn 13

11 00 RED FREES* 11 D So*h B-1- SbWorayA

12 5 SPEaaBJGBI IBP Me M --AMcHolsmB

13 40 SUPfflSTRDESIBCWrtuaH ..L Oomnrt 10

S2 Aom 7-2 Ptory. 6-1 PWe O lon0B». 7-1 PbJh. IM Mtoi

THUNDERER

2.10 Mr Nevermind. 2.40 Sakharov. 3.10 State Of
Caution. 3.40 No Warning. 4.10 Slate Approval. 4.40
Witt To Win.

GOING: STAN0ARD DRAW: NO ADVANTAGE SIS

2.10 CLOWN AMATEUR RIO BIS HANDICAP

(£1.725: lm 100yd) (13 runners)

1 m 5003 BE WARMS) 11 (tf.C.D.F.G) J Pratt 7-11-7

Untflarre 59

2 (5) 1100 ITAUAH SYMPHONY 6 (VJ^P Eons 4-11-4

AEtao (5) JB

J (71 0000 MR WVHatotl IB (C^/.GI S L Move 8-11-0

MfSJMsoe 50

4 (6j 0000 KWfiCH9 , B0Y«(D/aiMR|«»9.IM SUvafinra «

$ im -OOO TAL-Y-LLYH15lBS)K9eny4-M IfcsE Fates [7) 36

6 | 1 ) 500 6AJAN11BLtarflyn4-9-5 . .. WssEJJones(3) -

7 181 2640 CHEEHH4.GROOM 13(F)PSf 74-3 — MBSBlflay PTl
B (>2) 0300 DQtrT DROP B0US13 (VJIP^tPbhStt 9-9-3

tfcJ fMfcn 55

9 (101 3633 HEAD BAHJBW11 IB) «Wwod» 4-9-3

MsJianBBKTf 55

10 p) D4£0 DREAM CARRB171 |CJXP.G)RF«tta <0-9-1

MBCP«aact(5} 55

n (4> 1360 RKK0RTH? 56 (DASJPPSBf* 9-9-3

UiKA Pwtt (5) 48

12 (9» 5M» OI*ST»lXfi6AMT3»UllBwa»4-93 0GeW(7> 42

13 1131 HMD AIW.JACKSON 13PDUW4-9-3

SftfJer IttiGM (7) 32

5-2 Be Wared 9-2 teUan Syrephoor, 7-1 Head Gantaci. B-1 Ift Neramnd.
Oesrtal Gram. iM Khgcttp Boy. Owl Drco Boms. i2-i oihcn

2.40 GR0UPB1 CLAIMING STAKES

(£2.070: im If 79yrf) (13)

1 cn 1153 CHWACASTUIIIJfriPteim5-9-13 PGocUe(7) 79

2 (3) 50-0 GEH8TAL SONG71 (V-B)A UcAUA 4-9-1Q MTNKM -

3 (1) 2365 SUSA HAWK 7B (CDJS) J CSta f-9-10 JFwMg 64

4 (13) >042 B<245A£A6fiL Hm6-9-5_WRyra 78

5 191 054) SHARPEST 18JSMono4-9-5.-. PPltonhyCM -

6 (Hi 1015 BONGO34rWmPlwns 1-9-2-JFEipi HH

*7 (101 0566 EASTlfiGH® (GS) RrtSHcfesu9-9-2

UaWaCBii (71 44

6 (5( 00-0 MYHAMQSOME PR0CE 72PBerar6-9-2 DOmOyfT) 34

9 in 1403 SAKHAROV 11 (CO J.GjPEcrts 9-9-7 A McCarthy (3) 62

10 (4) SOOT P0KTTTE SOPH* 14 (QUWton 7-6-12

OUona0i(7) 67

11 112 ) 5500 POSE CHAIM 14 NLdbnoM 54-U -— DSweawy 43

l> (61 0-00 SON DANC8) 26 N 3nWl 3-H . -SOWVXB 31

13 <Sl 0040 FROUCKIHB 05 WGU Turn3-M2 . S RlghtM (7) 42

M cm eagle. 4-1 aonoo. 3-2 « Cfo Sap. 7-1 Su^Hn*. 6-1 Sattarci. 12-1

Pwwe Sdpnie. iC-1 Estotfi 20-> oioen

COURSE SPECIALISTS

1RAMERS: U Ptisoa 28 W® Bom 119 nnras. 215V P
Ec<J«. S Horn 24.3)«: P haaom. 40 tnjm Z11 18 «, 8 Muray. 3
(ran 16 1B8V T Baffin, i? ton 06. TL2V J Pbnce. 14 bom B3.
16 K

J0CJCYS- P fWmson. 3 -Breii ton 11 Wes. 27.3V taLPora.
4 Own 13. 21 TV J Earn, is tarn t1£. IS 7* D Smu. 14 tom
90 156V G WfkB. 29 tom 192, 151V R FtonBL 6 (ran 40.
?5ffV

4.40 ANGa FILLIES HANDICAP

(£2.070- 7f) (12)

1 <81 KW (TSWTHEPOBT143 (COflY Soane

'.Si v Saw MW FNsncn
Nwjntei-M PPUuptMpj

4 (91 4B1 AfflBWlStCJJflBPsilnoW-DSweemy 48

5 ill ZCSAJOA 18(B) MJ»a34-3.PfWtffln 50

6 ® 6-30 SLOBISEfVE ISMBeny3-6-1J.- K«ms «

7 (31 334) MAM MOON 7 G JttEcn Hw^fen 4-6-12 PIWs(7) 61

e awe imrowwiimpMapftrJ+iJ - n>«ft 35

9 (4) 2402 LADY JAZZ IS Twb^en 3-B-lD .. . . G DUSefl 65

ID PI 5005 inLLYMiSC IB GMaigraiw 46-10 - - - DBjp tS

11 (7) 5100 RWBIBQGM11 (RSI W ftataR/ne 5-8-6

AUcCxiVP) &

12 (12) 004) MASHSDfiAH21 TWafl 4-8-4 ..- Ltortm -

7-2 AiDerag 6-1 uny Jazz. 7-1 Rentfs Joy- 6M» “^*=- B-'

Zobtoa. 10-1 Rm rtagn. IM uses.

and that’s too small ra encom¬
pass all ihe excitement and
anguish involved. It's going to
take time, hard work and luck,
but I'm sure we will succeed
here."

Perhaps Butler was among
those in Sheikh Hamdan's
mind when Dick Hem an¬
nounced hLs retirement last
year. In the event. Kingwood
House became the realm of
Hern's long-serving assistant,
Tregoning — who could retire
himself if given a fiver every
rime he hears the expression,
“hard act to follow".

By the same token, with 60
horses in Lamboum. Treg¬
oning has obviously enjoyed a
head-scan, and he also has the
level head 10 cope with Lhe
accompanying pressures (de¬
spite numerous placed horses,
he is yet to get off the mark).
Sensibly, he is modifying the
major’s regime with his own.
easy-going style.

3.00 CROFT SELLING STAKES

(£1.940: Im 5f 175yd) (9)

1 0150 HU2AH 32 (D.f J35) ft town* 10-9-4 .. H festoon (5) 7

2 BO DANCER 1S7J K Hopa 4-9-12 --DWrtflM9

3 ID-5 BRODESSA 133 (D.FS) Ms MRnHey 12-8-12 . AC*nm6

4 215- GOOD KAIO 245 (D.F,S| SKbBleMlI 12 - 8-12 .. JFortunc3

5 5(6- JABAROOr422(F) Mflflra 7-8-d.- AWhetoS

6 MB KMOKD4(Ca/.B.S)RHogg 10-8-12.LCBamK*4

7 84-0 KKJD 18 717/G Otkord 6-8-12 . KHoOgsanS

S D0D- SABU 314 R Fltty 6-B-12 . _ . . -J (Mm 1

9 -BOO TARCRED USCHff 23 (F.G) El Barba 7-6-7

Jony Benson (7)8

6-4 Good Hard. 4-1 Brodessa. 9-2 rtlad 5-1 ttxta, l2-l Taosl lfciJto.
16-1 Bo Conca. Sdbu. 33-1 otter*

3.30 CALDEftPRUfT RATING RELATED MAIDEN
STAKES (£2290: lm3f 214yd) (4)

1 544 REVOLUTION 41 R YMbtc 4-9-9 _ .. R Cctirane 2

2 AC- SUCH BOLDNESS 324 Mcs G beUway 4-9-9 ... J Ftxtme 3

i 400- ETBWTTY (85 JFaistw 4-98- DHtirtsant

4 2240 ALOWYCH ARROW 18 M Ball 3-84>-ACulHiwi

M Ato)Cfi Aim. M Sotfr Botortt. S2 teroWnn 5-1 BanBr

4.00 PEN HILL CLAIMING STAKES

(£2.304:5f) (10)

1 2405 PALACEBA7E JACK » (B.BFJOF.6^) J Etoy 7-9-1

CLmther2

2 0M BALARCE THE BOOKS 19 (0.6) J Pates 3-9-0 JForamB

3 04)4 880B1 TRADER 38 (D.C0/.6S) B totadf 7-8-11

Iona Wands (5)9

4 TROPHY CSY7RE ttss t Para* 3-9-10 - NKanCrU)

5 0035 SLK COTTAGE 22 fj),Fj R BaSbrm 6-8-9 _ . R Cochrane 5

6 MO AKTTTHESS28(D^lJMbne5-»-4 .. SMatonsyS

7 M0 Kt)»ffLnaYB2JHe»<teW ...-J irate B

8 CAPRDARA J l line 3-8-2..- LQamockl

9 -000 «S»HAft6»7M0o«i3-6-1-'-AWWanT

10 4602 S1KR GB122 (0) C Cteya 3-7-10-P Fesssy (3) 4

5-2 S4ar GeJ. J-t toua fado. 7-2 SB* Coop, 7-1 PltoegA UX (0-1
Warrants Boobs. 12-1 H a tra B un 20-1 InpHy Cento Capdoara. ^1 other.

4.30 WENSLEY SPRINT HANDICAP

(£3.652:50 (IT)

1 -000 CHORUM CARUSO IB (F| T LearOy 3-M0 L GltolOCb 10

2 04)0 BOlNLBtS BCW13 (D^.G,S) J J Ounn5-9-8 . BBvmes(7>4

3 00-0 RCTYAL DOME M (Df .0) M Wtof 6-9-4 _ .. A Whelan 5

4 1-45 ARJAM 29 (COS) J Beny 1-9-3 --ClcutowB

5 30-1 PLEASURE TIME 14 (Vu/.G) C Sra# 5-9-3 — JftWBKl

6 00-2 AlAfTEAMA 3 (B.C0.Q5) 5 Btminq 5-8-12 .. ClKgue D(8

7 04-8 StroififT 7 (DJ.GJ5)BMcManoi6-8-9. BCoflfflw9

8 2404 JUST D&SoetfT B WO^.G) R WTntato 6-8-6 . J Quton 11

9 2854 RUDE AWAKEHMS 21 <Bt)hC Fakhtta*8-4 TWtos!

10 0000 0AH6ERMAH 12 V W EaaaW 3-8-3 - -.6P*tr 7

11 00-6 "nNKER'S SWVWSE14 fl),F)) B8(hng 4-7-13 .. H CabsJe 3
3-1 FVasure Time. 9-2 Affan. 6-1 Bowters dot. At3 (teident 8-1 Rnaf CW*
CopaH. 10-1 Fads Aiaicnmg. 12-1 toR

3.10 49'S HANDYMAN HOUSE HANDICAP
(SHOWCASE RACE) (£7.133: 61) (13)

1 (1) G630 STATE OF CAimtW27 (V.CO/ 0 SJiw5-JM

JFaraxna 103

2 »ri -020 W(«a : PB(U19(BF.0/.W>Nli«rrndrafrfr9 _

AMcCatodl 89

J (9i 2-14 W0LFHUKT 26 (CD) P Nbto 3-9-5 . ... S Srnoas 80

4 IIJi -4M0 SAMWAR 13Ol.filAAKGArtraay6-9-3 .. RFlWrt 68

5 |4I 2240 TIME TO FLY 38 (BCD) 0Munay 5-8-11 . D Sweeney 92

fi (It? 1030 UALUA13 (aCD/.6S) TBmaM-7 . JFEpan [ijgj
T (?) 0220 3GGTS DANCER 17 (CD.F£) E Havi 7-8-4

PRabmson 103

fi (Hi 43-5 ARiAN DA 11 (F) 6 PaJfiSQ 3-8-3 . - -. 7Sprite 92

9 (ti 3421 FWST MATTE 12 (B.CJJ.G.S) £ Bwmna 5-B-2

EWGJtson 100

10 (3) 15-0 SAMTAPAVE 13 (D/)BPathno3-7-13 RWtotoiFS) 99

K (*) 6342 PRBffiRBARON 26 T cianM 3-7-iJ .. A Maefcay 58

12 («1 -040 BYE Of SPADES 23 (D.CLS) R Ftf*y 3-7-10 fbomi ®

13 (5) 01-0 UY TYSON 4 K MaM. 3-7-10 --MB*d(3) 54

9-2 (OH 01 Pwu. 5-1FW Ma& M Sot 01 Caudoa fftfJbrt. Win. 8-1 Rra
Te Ry. 10-1 Sate fare. 12-1 oton

3.40 EDWIN R00PE BOTH BIRTHDAY

CELEBRATION MAIDEN STAKES

(2-Y-O £3.188:6f) ( 8 )

1 (81 BALLYCB0YRWB1BMcMaian 9-0.JFEgan -

2 I5i 0 G0U) HOMDR13 B Mfanan 9-0- MTehbUJ 77

3 (6) 06 JAMPET4 A Sarrcw 9-0 ..,— #■»-

4 (21 22 MAYBESPECMU2(BP)PKasum9-0 AMcCartiyP) EE]

5 it, M0 WARNNG M Ptsscdi 9-0 .. . . _ G DulMd

6 4] Q PARISIAN BLUE 23 N liWwan S-C . TSMcLaUQt* -

7 (7) SAMIAMWERHrtbtmraiVO . D Hayden (7) -

8 (3) 0 RiUR0W25Mf«jte'6-9. DSn*B*y 50

*-S Ma«tt Soeul. 9-2 (Id Wamvv 7-1 Gold Honor. Pansan B*«. 14-1
Snare nr. (6-( 8a«raw fb*» 25-1 fenW- Fla* Dt>

THUNDERER

220 ACE OF PARKES (nap) 3.50 Top Jem
2.50 Tiler -4.20 Slipstream

320 Milling 4.50 The Munro's

Timekeeper's top rating: 4.50 THE MUNRO'S.

Our Newmarket Correspondent 3.20 COME UP SMILING map). 3.50
Top Jem. 4 20 Slipstream. ■

GUIDE TO OUR RACECARD

0-3432 GOOD 1BC5 74 lCO-Bfr.G.S) <Ur. D Ijiinuri, 0 Itnl 9-I.1-0 B YJes |4) 85

Past Diivi m bnanv 5r*-iigne cantt am fliieno: nrnma BE — Dintei

ls<* if — fc- -i P — Ou M uo i’— uwufcrt Ovi.Mii? at UkzI ax! Gca>j on •rfbiTi flow fcr

«ii ff - lom yto-1 lo Ijm. hJl b - -

tenc^ 1 !a' ii IU — 5 *” x ' ,! ^ a ' fl - f Ownc m

itopr V — icw h — now £ — Ettsheld 'r-ww AqeaW nftB« Rmo our- any jiipwjot
C — ««n a D — Aurvi CD — Timrittca '■ »etd a/m;

GOING GOOD TO FIRM TOTE JACKPOT MEETING SIS

DRAW' 5F-5F. LOW NUMBERS BEST

2.20 GRBG MIDDLETON PEP MEDIAN AUCTION MAIDEN STAKES

(2-Y-0: £2.804 61) (9 runners)

■ 0 ) -■?> 4 ACf OF PARKES 23 iJHdguBxn 9-V . BCaaa flff

■j: 4 BOOGr ‘.vOCbY 12 ilir. P C-ifu 7 Ltdati,') 0 D MSjmm 69

il: ci)ll£G£ otci towm. 1 * lui j j o'Nun m w Susie

13: lJ- DAY-SOI m c<Ar* r ' i mll D 'jiram 9 0 . KrjBon

'2* ii- 6 FOR112 (1 7 HiJaniS-Q . . . J Y«jva 55

i»i GET STUCK IN n; 6 , 51 ., Pjwci-Jifti uai Me 1 Pcrran 9-0 . J Cjnoll

■«.. 6 HAYSTACKS 59 rl.5 & Lt-. A V-Uainl 0 Udfen 9-0 Darren Mo«an|3i 67

!C7 '.Of TO tiiCESIERTlGEHII (B?| iJAVITI rt»vmatji HI -- WJOCoraior 66
3 . 0U3 THREE GREEN LEAVES 12 (6 Pane*' U jpruincn 3-9 . D HobKI 76

ffiTc’.G i-4 Act V. Par-rr 92 Tnrw Orecn Luie. i■ I 5d«i» IV*^/. IO I Dn iu; Fw>. '4-! Hf.-ciir*:
ii-: Y-. uivri; Trus ZD-: Codr^o [»jti

tSS? HEAP8BKABDS k-0 » f Q-UJ fauan3 7 <j:.

> Act W Parto riil 41 ti ol 1010 EttUiT Muta rn numni ji

FORM FOCUS r^. go«« Coded* De 3 n College Cnepei con out 01

a ligWIy-racerJ rare Day-Boy Funcr Soto aeiaing tiai!-tHQiner 10
srrnirg re.Kf uiifcir. Get SBick In Up A«J Al Em '.oil. lun-tnrmia 19 61 amnei Don l Fwgci
£Coi3 Hsvstacte 7LI tjt; ol 7 to Speedy Jatrei m mardeo 7&£’. ai Newajlc |5( «od)
Lecesfcr tiger 22: (r! ol 4 o D Tjngo m muden juenon tf&o at Soutfmell (5f. IioreanJi Three
Green Leaves : '*i 3re ol 1 j ra Pips Magic m maiden itttti 21 Ripon 16 V guodi Boogy Woogy
rlRtfcr >( -i'll Stf Ron (level !.| 51 6tfr

ACE Cf PAntiES ilKtaed consideciife premu? a Crieclo and can ritu rue actown

2.50

ST VINCENT HIGH INCOME HANDICAP (£3.496:60 (8 runners)

X. -7) 5500-00 ASTRAC 27 fP.F.Sj if BceauBl 0 /itfolfc MM .... Ate- Greaves BS
ZZi ;2i 30-0326 TILER 6 (Bf.CD.F5l (MR C. Hotxncxi) M JdIycwi 6-9-10 D HoJtrnd [Tjg

X 3 (Si O7M20 8tE2 IS tSl Peefl C nvcnhgi 3-9-C . DUcKmon SB

W lj; 22-43 RYEY€LD 21 (Bti HAs t Audi Mr. I Penad 3 9 0 . . . JWeatet 10l

( 1 > 03405-0 FOR THE PRESEH1 14 <V.F£I HMJHaeiti I bmn 9-8-9 . . JEarra* 11)2
7fl« >6; D02MD J0HAYR0 28 (D.F.6) (F Brady) J Grade 58-0 . . . . JMtAlDey (7) 36

307 i5j -125506 UADMUTS WiAGf 13 ID) tJ tArttuy M Jolieto 3-7-10 . Damn Uofial) |3) 60

:05 (4) 004)004 Af.WJW 11 (CD.P.G.S) 1ft PEetvesi J Bore H-7-iO . .. J BrarrM 91

BFT7WS 11-4 Tiler. 7-2 For Die PrcaflU. 9 2 toot. G-i ftrrtero fi t Anuen. 'M Bun Mayra Madmans
■raage

1997; BADGE 6-9 2 D VYriprt <4-11 A Batev 10 ran

Vk' - AstracBVyi l«ho!29laSheMemM3rymhamlKa^ai NfTymarYfl

' FORM FOCUS («■ good) with Tier (51b mse oil) 9551 ifflti Tiler 4*r 6Ki of 10

I ~ toDaawinsotesatDomaslerI6l.good) Buzz 131 illhot 19ki

Ho tern r (undiao af Ylorfc (EJ 214yd. good) RyefleM 2tfl 3sO t»M5 lo Camel in makfcrr auction
solies A Noninqtom (6115yd. qood to firm} For Tin Present 5KI 8th « 11 lo Mra in tmtap ai
7Wrs)r(S. good) Joteyro 12! istial 17toSoatedinarrDfcif ImScapaWaeSbwqHS.gaiiD
Madman's Wrage 6Vrl 6th ol 15 » MJss Salsa Dancer in handicap ai Thu-*, (im. good to lirmj
Amron 3!4l 41D £d 13 to Urth Paly to hantato a) Mussetougn (71 30yd. good Ip lim).

FOR THE PRESENT on get Ihe bettor ot TBer

3.20

GILT-EDGED MAIDEN STAKES (£3,444:1m2f) (8 runners)

30f (7) OW ON THE OFF CHANCE 26 UHfttortRMdWar 6-8- (0 .AStaJ(5) -

303 (6) MARES0L15J (A MeMBe) P Uoneeldi 5-9-5 .. 0 Pure

X3 13} 60-0004 HAPPY DAYS IB (J Barreto 0 Metal 3-8-10_ Darren MJlan (3) FTTl

304

ID

00- MAMLA MDM 203 P- Bigley Psrtnert<i Ltd) J J Oltall 3-8-10

W Supple

50

305

ft;

5 0RU8JE 41 (BF) (ABs K DdW> P OiW*e-H|Qm 38-10 _ .

. K Fatal

75

306

18 )

TVEPHESOBtr (MorttiRaraigPattner*4iUEtft3-B-'0 . .

. J Weaver

-

307

HI

B COME IP SIMMS 2B (M aFUaMoung E Durfap 38-5 _

. G Carter

73

308

Pi

0-5 MLUMG31 (CHite)RGueg38-5..

PHotand

66

BETIMt 7-4 (toneBe. 5-2 Con* Up SratorG. 3-1 bung. B-1 Haw Days. HW Ite Pnsadcm 25-1 Marnb
Mom 33-1 Mauri (to Ihe On Chance.

1997 PARTY ROMANCE 3-8-10 W Ryan (4-11B Hantwy 61 »

On The Oil Chance 5319)hol 11 to Seaei Saver In nalden ilates
FORM FOgUS- a Mairailon (Im 3T i^d. good to art) Happy Days 6( 4th of 17

- • " _i-J to Aidleigh Ctarmei m handicap a Redcai (im 21. good) Manta

Moon 201 T5tti or 22 lo Eco Friendly in ntnden auxon states ai ftneaster dm. good lo sofl).
Omrefie 7*1 5thoM3 lo Silca Kw Sovice in marten states at Netomy dm. heavy). Come Up
Smftig ffXI Hf? of ?5 to Jmsiyah to maiden Sites dates at Nemeth* (71. go oq to soft). Milng
5WI 50i ol 15 to toctaina m maidoi fltfies states al Molting ham (im 54yd. soil)

COME UP SMILING. Hho ran well at MewmarteL car Bridie CHinol MCmg

3.50 GROG MIDDLETON STOCKBROKERS CUP

(Handicap: £5.508: im 21) (9 runners)

401 IS) 40355-3 YAVANA'S PACE 10 (F.GSl ftte J Kcmvl M Jobralm G-9-10 . 0 IMaid 89

402 (9) 00-0203 OVER T0YDU 12(6) (0 Sum I Ban* 4-9-2...JCwrti 86

403 (II -006400 TOP JEM 25 (D/ S) INonion PaL 3utfl M Ryai 4-S-13 . .. KFalton

404 (2) 0310-86 C0LWAY RTT2 12 (G) (R Coteman) W Siorev 4-8-10-- 0 Pears Bfi

405 (4) 4464)20 BRAVEM0NT60M5t£ 12 (C.F) lCUderoil Ufal Pern*4-8-9 WSu** 90

406 (fi) 0600-00 BEST OF ALL 22 (B.FJG^J (R Aid) J Bury 6-8-8-6 Cams 91

407 (3) 58R-261 SIOT«tBS22(CD/.&S)(DSCtoilJItoWe7-8-7 . . JBremM 96

40fi (7) 010064 BEG0RRAT17 (B.C G5) W Ftyrm) D MoU 4-8-7 .. .. N FYiard |7| 90

4» 16} 304080 SWAN BLAND 11 ff Bam) WBrirawnf 4-7 10- . RbMenP) 97

Long taeSeao &*an t3and 7-4

SETTWG: 7 2 Varam s Pax. *-1 Sauries, 9-2 Ow To Ytiu 7- r 7ep Jem. Cohor fur. Bo* Ol At. 8-1 Bute
Mratgamem. HM otiras.

(997: WAflR 5-9-10 Daren Uo** (I M ((&■/P Cjhw 5 rai

Ywana's Pace 2Vil 3rd ol 8 to Sick te A Panel n handicap al
- FuttM FOCUS Bevfriey (Im 100yd. good to him) Dvw To You W 3rd ol 19 to
rr- J Party tamance handiop at Ripon dm 21. good) wilh Coiway
FUz(3ni bettor off) 3KI5tti and Brave Itardgomette I6B> Delia oft) 9’4» i2tti Top Jem 18J nth ol

15 to Mowelga to nardrap aJ Doncaster (Im 2160yd. good lo (ton) Stonrtcss beal Zorba 61 m 13-
nmer hartcap al Hamilton (Im 65yd. sod) wiffi Best (JF AB ((Hb better olff 43 ifltfi Begun*
2VI 4tt oll3 to largesse In forefinap a Ywk (im 31 l9F-yd, QcttS to son). Swan island 5*416tti Ol

16 to Sea Ya Matte to handicap £ Southwell dm nbtemtf)

YAVANA'S PACE car defy top -eight al eigense oi Over To Yeu

4.20 GROG MIDDLETON PORTFOLIO CHARITY CLASSIFIED STAKES

(£2,234. im 51 13yd) (7 runneis)

50i (3) 2101620 TYCOON IBtA 4 IS) (A Bniotf tabu) W Breteuna 4 -9-10 . H Mullen (3| pq)

*2 (6) 414/34- GOVWIHIHEWlfl)333(F)(ACtedmcfc)Jijotola5-9-9. . JWBwer ■«

W3 IT) 0/60 MONTRAVt 19 (D S Liar) J GoUe 9-9-9 ..J BranM BO

SDt SI a» NAYS 721 (J Batloct J Ctertiw . J Dance

505 111 450SM SAL^LAO 14 [RycnnUHI^wirte 4-9-9 .. RLapWi 66

£06 (4) 0-06TW SUP$T1ttA4l 6 IteBUBK BretUno and Rac»® F Cure! 4-9-9 . DHotoiM 73

S07 (2) 68-8022 FORTYlUVE22(V.6) (taysMaFairang)DModal3-M .HPWWF7) 7i

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for Italy

155 r ?- -

By Matt Dickinson

DOUBTS over Alessandro del
Piero’s involvement in the
World Cup finals this summer
appeared to have been dis¬
pelled yesterday when the
Italy forward pissed a rigor¬
ous fitness test Del Piero had
been suffering from a thigh
strain — the cause of his
disappointing performance
for Juventus against Real
Madrid in the European Cup
final — but is confident that he
will be fully recovered in time
for the finals.

“The musde feels much
better than it did last week,"
he said at a press conference
yesterday at the Italy training
camp near Florence. “For the
first couple of days after the
European Cup final, I couldn't
hide my disappointment, part¬
ly because we had lost and
partly because I was injured.
Now things look much
brighter."

Gianfranco Zola, the Chel¬
sea forward, has no chance of
being called up as a late

WORLD CUP 98
IN THE TIMES

replacement, even if Del
Piero's injury returns. Cesare
Maldini, the Italy coach, is
using Enrico Chiesa. who
plays for Parma, as a shadow
for Del Piero. Italy, who face
Austria. Cameroon and Chile
in group B. play their final
World Cup warm-up match
against Sweden in Stockholm
on Tuesday, the day set by
fifa. the world governing
body, for coaches to finalise
their 22-man squads.

England fans baffled by
their team's failure to break
down Saudi Arabia at Wem¬
bley on Saturday in the drab
00 draw will have been
further confused by the Arabs’
next result — a 6-0 defeat in
Norway. The loss in Molde
will not have been welcomed
north of Hadrian's Wall ei¬
ther. with Scotland facing the
Norwegians in group A. al¬
though there was some conso¬
lation in the knowledge that
Saudi Arabia finished the
match with nine men after the

disimissal of Mohammed AJ-
Daye, the goalkeeper, and
Mohammed Al-tJhlaiwi. Both
were sent off for fouls on Ole
Gunnar Solskjaer. The victory
extended Norway's unbeaten
run to 14 games.

The two goals for Solskjaer
were enough to convince Egil
Olsen, the Norway coach, to
select the Manchester United
striker in his 22-man squad —
which was announced yester¬
day — despite what had been a
fitful season for him at Old
Trafford. Also on the
scores heet were Egil Osten-
stad, of Southampton, and
Tore Andre Flo. of Chelsea,
both of whom won places in
the party, which reads like a
list of leading players in the
FA Carling Premiership. Thir¬
teen have English experience,
including all three goalkeep¬
ers — Frode Grodas. Thomas
Myhre and Espen Baardsen.
Flo is joined by his brothers.
Jostein, formerly of Sheffield
United, and Havard.

Kevin Gallacher is likely to
return to the Scotland team
tomorrow against the United
States at the RFK Stadium,
Washington, after recovering
from a stomach bug. The
Blackburn Rovers striker. 31,
missed the 2-2 draw against
Colombia on Saturday, but
Craig Brown, the Scotland
manager, is eager to play
Gallacher. who is almost cer¬
tain to spearhead his side's
attack in France.

“I've had a good year with
Blackburn Rovers and have
been playing consistently."
Gallacher said yesterday.
“The pressure doesn't bother
me and I'm enjoying my
football at the moment The
Scotland boys are quietly con¬
fident of doing well."

Problems appear to be
mounting by the day for
Croatia, who are possible op¬
ponents for England in the
second round. Having lost
Alen Boksic, the Lazio striker,
to injury and Igor Cvitanovic
after a disagreement with
Miroslav Blarevic, the coach,
they are now without Stjepan
Tomas, a defender, who has
left the squad because of a torn
ligament in his knee. Daniel
Saric, of Croatia Zagreb, Alen
ltetemac. of Real Valladolid,
and Boris Zivkovk, of Bayer
Leverkusen have been called
into the provisional squad.

NORWAY SQUAD: F Grodas, T Myhre, E
Baardsen. H Bam, SI Bjoemebyu. 0
Eggen, G Hals. V Hoqoot. E Hofm R
Johnsen. J Flo. H Fta. KHeHJaL E MyMand,
O Lsonhardsen. S SotttMaen: J l Jafcobsen.

E Oswnstad. OG Sofcjaer, V FUseth, R
Strand, T A Flo

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Owen is knocked out in a sickening collision with Benzakri. the Morocco goalkeeper, during the match in Casablanca

England playing risk game

A/TX^caS: Rob Hughes on the danger that

b>anca on Wedne, Qweil WHS left tO CndUTC “■ P*

M ichael Owen’s su¬
perb goal in Casa¬
blanca on Wednes¬
day was undoubtedly the
most valuable act of En¬
gland's World Cup prepara¬
tion. It emphasised what
courage and desire, what pace
and composure, he has. It will
do die boy a power of good
and his country needs that
However, that Owen was
still on the field to score it was
scary and irresponsible. Any
parent of an 18 -year-old. every
neurologist who put his mind
to what preceded it would
conclude that a player previ¬
ously concussed should be
removed from the danger of a
second blow to the head.

Owen, by his own admis¬
sion. was knocked cold 25
minutes earlier when the knee
of the Morocco goalkeeper,
Driss Benzakri. caught his
jaw. Dion Dublin (ode good
care of his England colleague
by turning hun on his side
and ensuring that the tongue
had not been swallowed- Our
players live and learn; Dublin
has played for Manchester
United where, in 1989. Bryan
Robson swallowed his
tongue.

Owen quickly revived and

appeared deareyed to the
England doctor, John Crane,
and two physiotherapists.
"He didn't know what he was
doing or what was happen¬
ing," Glenn Hoddle, the
coach, said. "But when he
regained consciousness the
first thing he did was plead
not to be taken off, so we gave
him another two minutes to
recover his composure.”
Owen later admitted: "I might
have told them I was OK. but
I didn't feel OK.".

Whether two minutes, 25
minutes or 90 minutes, it
constituted an unacceptable
risk. Concussion Is insidious.
No one can look inside the
skull and see brain damage,
which is why boxers collapse
in the night, hours after being
revived in the ring. Boxing,
rugby and horse racing have
long been unequivocal to¬
wards concussion: remove the
participant and do not let him
resume until expert opinion
deems further repercussion to
be unlikely.

The last person to heed in
the heat of the contest is a
performer. Adrenalin over¬
rules common sense. In Ow¬
en's eyes, tire glory, and the
chance to book his seat on the
World Cup plane, was worth
the risk. He was well aware
that his goal makes him the
youngest scorer in England
team history — though one
doubts he knows that Tommy
Lawton, who set the previous
record in 1938, ended his life
after years -of wretched mi¬
graines blamed on the knock¬
outs that he took on active
football service.

We are. you see. a coura¬
geous nation. Bravery is per¬
ceived in the image of Pad
Lace in Rome last October,
battling on, his head swathed
in bandages. Hie blood seep¬
ing through was the red
badge of courage, so terribly
British-

Curiously. Owen had his
opportunity in Casablanca
because Ian Wright another
forward whose swiftness is of

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ROWING

Oriel hold

prime importance, was with¬
drawn the instant he felt a
hamstring pulL With injuries
below the waist England is
stepping into line with sensi¬
ble foreign precaution; above
the neckline, we live danger¬
ously in the past

In 1974. Fifa, the world
governing body, heeded the
warnings and issued advice
from its medical committee
that even mildly concussed
players should be substituted.
The Football Association ig¬
nored the missive, paid only
lip service to the offer of a
leading London brain special¬
ist, Andrew Lees, to investi¬
gate the hazards inherent in
putting the head to the ball,
the elbow or the boot That
specialist, and others, start
from the opinion that it is
beyond them to attempt to
diagnose internal head dam¬
age in a few moments on a
field surrounded by thou¬
sands of Cans. "I might ex¬
pert." one expert counselled,
"to be sued if I gave the wrong
advice and the player
suffered.”

With a career potentially as
worthy as Michael Owen's,
that knock-on risk is surely
round the comer.

Shearer
is not for
sale, say

Newcastle

By David Maddock

NEWCASTLE United yester¬
day dismissed whai they
described as “wild specula¬
tion" over the future of Alan
Shearer. The England for¬
ward has been linked with
both Barcelona and Juventus,
but Kenny Dalglish, the
Newcastle manager, insisted
it was "rubbish".

Shearer, according to un¬
named sources from Italy, is
the subject of a £22 million
bid from Juventus, who are,
reportedly, rivalling Barcelo¬
na for the player's signature.

However. Freddie Fletcher,
the Newcastle chief executive,
said last night "Let me stress
once and for all that Alan
Shearer is not leaving this
club. We have not had a bid
from Juventus, but in any
case, if anyone is interested in
him they are wasting their
time. We aim to make this dub

one of the biggest and best in
Europe, and to do that, we
need players of his calibre."

Juventus. in fact, are unlike¬
ly to pay such a sum for any
player, never mind an En¬
glishman who is regarded
with indifference by many
Italians.

The Italian champions have a
record of selling expensively,
and buying cheaper. They sold
Christian Vieri to Attetico
Madrid, for E133 million, and
replaced him with Filippo
Inzaghi for £7 million.

Newcastle made a rather
less ambitious investment of
their own yesterday when they
signed Georgjou Georgious,
the Greece right-sided mid-
field player, for £600.000. He
scored 22 goals for
Panaihinaikos last season.

Leeds United will open talks
today with Alan Thompson,
the Bolton Wanderers mid-
field player. The Lancashire
club’s relegation from the FA
Carling Premiership means
Thompson can activate a
clause in his contract to leave.

Arsine Wenger, the Arsenal
manager, was also in dismis¬
sive mood yesterday, laugh¬
ing off suggestions that he is
hying to sign Roberto Baggio,
the Italy forward, for £6mil-
lion. “The numbers are crazy
and we are not interested in
him at all," he said. "We try to
get very good players we can
integrate into our wage
structure."

Real Madrid have sacked
Jupp Heynckes eight days
after he coached them to
their European Cup final
triumph over Juventus.
Lorenzo Sanz. the dub’s chair¬
man, explained: “If we had not
won the European Cup this
would have been one of the
worst seasons in recent years."
Real finished fourth in the
league, 11 points behind
Barcelona, the champions.

Heynckes replaced Fabio
Capeilo last summer even
though the Italian had steered
Real to the league title

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11 players from all those who will
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summer - it couldn't be easier.

HOW TO PLAY
Select a team of 11 players from
the list right You can enter any-
time until noon on June 10
using die hotline number below.
You can only choose one player
from any national team and you
must select a 4-4-2 formation
(a goalkeeper, four defenders,
four midfielders and two strik¬
ers). From 6am on June Z when
all World Cup squads will be
confirmed, until noon on June 9.
you will be able to transfer as
many players as you wish on
our transfer line. From the start
of the World Cup until noon on
July 3. you will be able to make
a further six transfers. After
noon on June 30 you wiJJ be
able to select a maximum of two
players from the same national
team. Full details of the transfer
system will appear in The Times
from June 10.

THE TIMES

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POINTS AS FOLLOWS:

Goal - 3 points

Assists - 2 points

Defender l Goalkeeper
Appearance -1 point for a
defender or goalkeeper
playing 45 minutes or more
of a match, including
extra time

Defender /Goalkeeper
Clean Sheet - 3 points
(2 points for dean sheet,

I appearance point)

Defender/Goalkeeper
goal against --l point

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Assists points awarded to a
team-mate making the last pass
before a goal is scored. Only
applicable to members of the
scoring team. If the last touch
before a goal scorer is from a
team-mate but his touch does
not significantly aller the speed
or direction of ihe ball, then two
separate assists are given, one
far each of the players setting
up the goal. If the Iasi touch
before a goal scorer is by an
opposing player and it signifi¬
cantly alters the speed or direc¬
tion of the ball, then no assist is
given. In the event of a penal¬
ty. the fouled player gels an
assist if the penalty is suc¬
cessfully scored, but not if
he takes it himself in
which case no assist is
given. No assist is given
for a player who earns a
free kick which subse¬
quently results in a
goal. The decision of
Fantasy League will be
final on these matters.

Appearance points
awarded to a defender or
goalkeeper who is on the
pitch for at least 45 min¬
utes including extra rime.
Defenders or goalkeepers
appearing in only part of a
game will lose points for
goals conceded while play¬
ing. if no goals are conceded
while they are playing, they
win be awarded a clean-sheet
if they are on the field for 75
minutes or more including' 1
extra-time.

Extra Time & Penalty Shoot-
Outs: extra time (golden goal)
goal and assists are awarded as
above. For extra time goals
points are deducted against the
goalkeeper and defenders as
above. No points are awarded
for penalty shoot-out goals.

Full details of how to check
your team score will appear in
The Times from the beginning
of June.

Use the list right to pick your
world-beating 11. then enter
your Fantasy League team by
calling our hotline on:

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(+44 990 100 385
outside UK)

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weekdays 9am to 6pm.

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HOW TO. ENTER

Select a team of 11 players from the
footballers listed righL You can only
choose one player from any national
tpton and have to select a 44-2 forma¬
tion (a goalkeeper, lour defenders, four
midfielders and two strikers). Make a
note of the three-digit player codes for
your 11 players. Call the hodine num¬
ber right and when prompted, tap in
the player axles. You will be asked to
give the name of your team (no more

than 16 characters). You will then be
given a ten-digit personal identification
number (PIN) - make sure you write
this down and keep it safe, you will
need it to check your team's progress
and make any transfers. The call will
last approximately seven minutes.
0891 calls cost 50p per minute. Calls
from payphones cost approximately
double. Calls from outside the UK
(+44 WO) are charged at national rate.

ENTER TODAY BY CALLING

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52 SPORT

THE TIMES FRIDAY MAY 29 1998

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CRICKET

Positive Hollioake

sees Surrey home

By Simon Wilde

THE OVAL Surrey beat Ian -
cash ire by Jive wickets

SURREY march on in the
Benson and Hedges Cup. This
was the holders' thirteenth
straight win in the competition
since losing to Kent in a group
match 13 months ago, a se¬
quence that includes a defeat
■ in. last year's semi-final of
. Leicestershire, whom they will
meet again in the last four on
June 9. though this time at
, Grace Road rather than the
Oval.

The man who has led them
. throughout this triumphant
run made one of the derisive
contributions in an all-round
team performance that proved
too much for Lancashire,
themselves experts in cup
cricket. When Adam
Hollioake went in yesterday at
M3 for four, with Surrey-
chasing 204 to win, this born
optimist reckoned his side's
chances were no better than
50-50. A pragmatic view might
have been 60-40 in Lanca¬
shire's favour.

But here; after his troubles
with leading England.
Hollioake was back to his
combative best, batting in
something like his freest vein
as he steered his side safely to
victory with an unbeaten 39 off
45 balls. His straight drives
for six against Austin and
Martin signalled the death of
Lancashire's challenge.

Apart from perhaps feeling

more at ease in the less
pressured environs of county
cricket, there was an obvious
reason for his assurance, as he
is dose to shaking off the
unpleasant effects of a shin
injury that almost caused him
to withdraw as England’s
captain in the Texaco Trophy
against South Africa last
week.

Hollioake’s reluctance to
bowl in those three games was
seen by many as a sign of
crumbling confidence in the
wake of a string of one-day
international defeats, it now
transpires that he was

BENSON AND HEDGES CUP
SEMI-FINAL DRAW

YortsWe v Essex
UiceslefShira v Suray
Marches to tie played on June 9

incapacitated by an infected
shin for which he is taking
antibiotics.

“My leg would have had to
be half hanging off for me not
to lead England," he said
yesterday. “1 did not say
anything about the problem at
the time because f did not
want the South Africans to
think theyjiad an advantage.*

Hollioake’s opposite
number. Wasim Akram also
played his part in yesterday’s
outcome, albeit unintentional¬
ly. Wasim's own fitness prob¬
lems — he is being treated for
an injury to his right shoulder

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— almost certainly prevented
him bowling as venomously
as he can and caused him to
serve up an uncharacteristic
number of wides and no-balls.

However, when he deceived
Ratcliffe with a slower ball to
claim Surrey's fourth wicket
Wasim visibly increased his
pace and briefly threatened to
make the derisive break¬
through. It might have hap¬
pened. especially if Wasim
himself had held on to a sharp
chance at slip off Butcher. But
flinging out his suspect right
arm, he was a fraction slow.

Butcher was only three runs
into his innings of 36 and had
he fallen Surrey would have
looked precarious at 116 for
five. As it was, the loss within
12 overs of Brown, Stewart
Thorpe and Ratcliffe suggest¬
ed that they had embarked on
another of their famous one-
day collapses. But Hollioake
and Butcher, who revived
memories of his match-win¬
ning coolness in Trinidad
three months ago. played ad¬
mirably during a partnership
of 70 in 14 overs that followed
a period in which scoring had
virtually stagnated.

They looked more at ease
once Yates finished an excel¬
lent spell- that yielded two
wickets and but for Wasim’s
dropped catch would have had
a third. Yates removed Brown,
whose enterprising opening
stand of 81 with Stewart made
a Surrey victory look a formal¬
ity, and Thorpe, whom he beat
with a fine balL On a pitch
offering turn, he could have
done with a slow-bowling
partner.

In the end. Surrey won the
match in some style, with
Hollioake’s brother. Ben.
strolling in to wrap up the
game with a flurry of effortless
boundaries and take himself a
step nearer to his favourite
occasion, a big match at
Lord's.

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Cowan Strikes decisive blows

By Michael Henderson

LORD’S: Essex beat Middle¬
sex by eight runs

SCOREBOARD

•'.•v.y/'-'- 4

LANCASHIRE: 203 (M A Atterion 93;
Sac^an Musttaq 4 tor 48).

SURREY

A D Browi b Yates..41

tAJStewartc Rimoff b Chappie _.31

G P Thorpe c Hogg b Yates--15

J D Ratdlfie c Chappie b Wasim .... 10

M A Butcher cHeggb Martin ..36

'A J HaOoate not out -38

B C HoBoake not out ........14

Extras Ob 9. w 9. nb 2) .—. 20

Total (5 wkts. 4S.4 ewers)-..206

M P BfckneU, I □ K Salisbury, Saqtafn
Mushtaq and J E Benjamin cad not bat
FALL OF WICKETS: 1-78, 2-81. 3-103.
4-110.5-180.

BOWLING: Martn 10-0-54-1. Austin
8-0-39-0; Wasim Ahram 9-1-31-1; Yale3
10-1-35-2: ChappteQ 4-1-38-1

Adam Hollioake, of Surrey, plays the ball to leg yesterday

Umpires: D R Shepherd and
AGT Whitehead.

MIDDLESEX had won eight
successive one-day games be¬
fore this Benson and Hedges
Cup quarter-final, so they
cannot pin this failure on ring-
rustiness. Two of those vic¬
tories were against Essex, so
they cannot plead ignorance.
They won The toss. loo. How
many more advantages did
they want?

By bowling 16 wides. to
Essex'S four, they conceded 12
runs. or. to put it another way.
they gave their opponents two
additional overs. The single
over given to Blanchett on
Wednesday cost them a dozen
more. Ramprakash. whose
hands are normally so reli¬
able, spilt a chance at deep
square leg. when Rollins was
on one. All these things add
up and. on this occasion, they
mattered.

Essex were not flawless.
Peters and Grayson grassed
difficult chances, and some of
the ground Gelding was mod¬
erate. but they bowled well
and in Cowan, the forgotten
man of England's tour of the

West Indies, they had the
match winner. He took the
gold award for his five wick¬
ets. though Peters, whose un¬
beaten 58 the day before
bolstered the innings, had as
good a claim.

Cowan returned from the
Caribbean with a poor report,
which cited lack of fitness for
his tack of form, (for the past
three weeks he has been
absent from the Essex team
with a side strain. So he
certainly has plenty of ground
to make up.

Cowan admitted afterwards
that he had not been bowling
well On this ground, how¬
ever, he suddenly finds his
footmarks sprinkled with star¬
dust In last year's NatWest
Trophy final he took three
wickets as Essex beat War¬
wickshire. and yesterday he
matched that performance
witfi three wickets in his
opening spell.

Fust he disturbed the
stumps of Johnson, who
opened the Middlesex innings
in his role as preferred hitter.
Then he had Brown caught
superbly by Stuart Law. two-
handed at second slip as he
dived to his right When Law
caught Ramprakash in the

same position, Middlesex
were 51 for three, and slipping.

They needed another big
effort from Langer, the West
Australian who has begun his
county career with such cer¬
tainty. and he did not disap¬
point Together with Shah,
who is coming into adulthood,
he made 108 for the fourth
wicket and provided a basis
for victory, if only Middlesex
could guard wickets for the
final push.

With 13 overs left and 74
needed, they held all the cards.

SCOREBOARD

ESSEX: 232 for 9 (5 D Raters 58 not oU).

MIDDLESEX

tK R Brtxm c S G Law b Cowan ...... 11

R L Johnson b Cowan -.9

J L Larger tow b Cowan-71

-M R Ramprakash c S G Law

b Cowan . 14

OAShahtowbCwran.— 43

J C Pooley c Grayson b Bott .. .. .... 20
P N WeeKes c Irani b S G Law . ... .24

K P DUch not out ..5

ARC Frasac not oti .. . -.14

Extras (lb 9. w 4).. .. 13

Total {7wkts,50overa)-224

JP HewU and 1N Btandiett did not bat
FALL OF WICKETS: MO. 2 23. 3-51.
4 159.5-160. 6-202, 7-207
BOWLING. Boa 10-1-39-1: Cowan 10O-
28-5: Irani 90-42-0; Such 10-0-39-0; SG
Law 80-50-V, &aysan 30-17-0.
Umpfes: R Palmer and A Clarkson.

Struggling Leicestershire hope that reality bites

MAY is no time to be judging a
championship season, but with
Sussex and Derbyshire in the top
three. Leicestershire two places off
the bottom and matches starting
and ending on a bewildering vari¬
ety of days, there is an air of
unreality about proceedings so far.
The new round of games, though
there are only five, may put things
in a dearer focus.

Derbyshire, suffocated by inter¬
nal strife Iasi year, look to have one
of the weaker squads in the country
after dose-season departures- They
have started weJL with two wins
already, but today at Chesterfield
they meet far likelier championship
contenders in Leicestershire.

Rain and injuries can be blamed
for Leicestershire's parlous early
placing, but they need to start

collecting points soon and will
expect to win this game, given four
dry days. Still without Janies
Whitaker, their captain, they will
be led tty Chris Lewis, providing he
feels his hip complaint will stand it

It will be an important fixture for
two individuals. Darren Maddy
remains the favourite to partner
Michael Atherton at the top of the
England order in the first Test next
week and a substantial score for
Leicestershire would confirm it
Dominic Cork, die Derbyshire cap¬
tain, is also bark in the thoughts of
the selectors, though he needs
something more spectacular to
convince them he is back dose to
his best

Chris Adams, once of Derbyshire
but now captaining Sussex, suf¬
fered a chastening introduction to

By Alan Lee, cricket correspondent

the England side last week in more
ways than one. He batted without
distinction and picked up two
injuries, a broken finger and a
strained hamstring, so he is likely
to miss the match at Worcester.

Sussex, who would be dear at the
top if they had garnered more
points against Adams’s old county
last week, have a potent new-ball
attack now in James Kinky and
Jason Lewiy and they feel that Paul
Jarvis is expendable. He is dropped
today to accommodate Alex Ed¬
wards. a locally raised afl-rounder.

Few would dispute that Surrey
are the best side in the country
when at full strength, and they do
lead the table at this early stage.
However, their heavy defeat at

Taunton last week demonstrated
how difficult it will be for them to
sustain a challenge for the title

Whenever England are playing
—which is every other week — they
will be without anything from two
to five senior players. Add on any
injuries, sudi as the one that
discounted Saqlain Mushtaq last
week and they arc reduced to a
pale imitation. The}’ can also be
erratic as testified by their bottom
place in the Axa League which
curies with it the threat of a place
in the second division next summer.

They must capitalise when
everyone is available but today,
when this is the case, they face a
Kent side with similar ambitions.
Kent arc also smarting from a

recent setback, having been bun¬
dled out of the Benson and Hedges
Cup on Wednesday.

Many people have dismissed the
chances of Glamorgan, the champi¬
ons. defending the tide successfully,
and they may be premature. The
team has not changed greatly from
last year. Steve James is back at his
most prolific and Matthew May¬
nard. the captain, returns after a
groin injury at Lord’s today.

Durham are progressing encour¬
agingly and the return to fitness of
David Boon is an immense boosL
but it is their younger brigade —
specifically Mdvyn Betts and Paul
Collingwood — who are catching
some significant eyes.

The match at Trent Bridge today
provides another opportunity for
both to impress and a first chance

in Nottinghamshire colours forme
who has already attracted England
A recognition. Chris Read. Signed
from Gloucestershire, where he
was understudy to Jade Russell
Read now gets bis chance after an
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ARGl Ty-TlNA have fought
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ihdr matches an their way to
qualifying for the World Cup
semi-finals and they will need
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frantic pace with England
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crossbar and Lee was on hand
to score.

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Peam raced through on his
own to score the third goal and
seal vicinrv. In the play-offs.
England will meet Canada!
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remember, England, who
finished fourth in the home
international series at

Worthing last year, have

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year’s series in Ayr from June
29 to July 3 (David Rhys
Jones writes).

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Sampson, both 24, Simon
Skelton. 26. and Andy
Baxter. 30. will be making
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Newman, who is rally 23.

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It was then that Hussain
recalled Cowan to bowl his
two remaining overs and he
struck oil with his-first ball
when Shah, moving across his
wicket to play the ball through
the on side, was leg-before.
Alter Pooley took a single to
get to the other end, Langer
was also leg-before, for a well-
made 71.

A demand of 69 from the
last ten overs proved too great
Pooley belted Boa to mid-off
and when Irani pulled down a
catch at long-off to dismiss
Weekes he behaved with all
the decorum of Mitzi Gaynor
on some South Pacific beadi-
If somebody had given him a
pole there and then, he might
have vaulted over the massive
“steel gherkin” media centre
under construction at the
Nursery End.

When the final over began,
Middlesex needed 21 and,
although Fraser clobbered
Law for six over cover off die
last ball, their goose was well
and truly cooked. Essex now
go to Headingley and, having
won two games this week
from difficult, if not impossi¬
ble positions, they will feel
they have much better cricket
left in them.

■ CYCLING: Laurent
Roux, of France, won a
rainswept twelfth stage
from San Marino to Carpi
yesterday and took over
from Alex Zulle as the
overall leader of the Giro
DTtalia. The French TVM
rider edged out Sergei
Smetanin. of Russia, and
Germano Pierdomenlco,
of Italy, at the line and
finished the day 19sec
aiwad of Andrea Noe, of
Italy. Ihe winner the stage
on Wednesday. Zulle. of
Switzerland, lies third
overall—35 seconds off die
pace.

■ CRICKET: Chris Cairns
headed a tight New Zealand
bowling performance on
the second day of the first Test
match against Sri Lanka
in Colombo yesterday. Cairns
took three for 48 as New .
Zealand restricted Sri Lanka -
to 251 for seven in reply to '•
their 305.

■ BASKETBALL: Ihe
Chicago Bolls demofished
the Indiana Facers 106-87
lo take a 3-2 lead in tire seven-
game Eastern Conference
champlonsinp and move one
wm away from the NBA
finals. Mkhad Jordan
scored 29 points.

■ OMMUHd HHHft Johan V-.
Ivarsson. of Sweden, the titie- v
holder, won die second
individual race in the World
Cup series at Windermere
yesterday.

Pole vault
Britons
double up

By David Powelx

ATHLETICS CORRESPONDENT

WHEN Ashia Hansen and;
Jonathan Edwards set British
records for the triple jump at
the Bupa indoor grand prixin
February, it was a rare coinci¬
dence for a man and a woman,
to perform the feat in the same'
discipline on the same day.
Now, three months later; it
has happened again, this time
in the pole vault.

On Wednesday. Nick
Buckficld added five ren t*- -
metres to his British record tty_
vaulting 5.S0 metres in Kha-
nia. Crete. At the same time, in
Cottbus. Germany. Janine
Whitlock pushed up the wraiir
en s British record from 4.25
metres to 4.30.

Buckfield's effort was all the
more commendable for being
achieved in difficult circum¬
stances. Turning up at Heath¬
row for an earlv evening
departure on Tuesday, he
found his flight was over¬
booked. He was bumped on to
a later flight that arrived in
Khania at dawn on the day of
competition.

As if having to overcome a
myht night were not handicap
enough. Buddield was not
allowed to take his pates. He
borrowed one from a fellow
competitor and. despite the
on familiarity, soared to 5.80.

This confirms Buckfield’s
move into world class, after a
“'y step in Athens last sum-
nu T v ' hcn he finished fifth
wuh 570. the best period
mancc bv a British pole vauU-

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GOLF

Big guns put
name games
to one side

From Mel Webb in Hamburg

AFTER the Lord Mayor’s
Show comes another Lord
Mayor's Show. The infernally
confusing Deutsche Bank SAP
Open Tournament Players’
Championship of Europe
might suffer from the ultimate
identity crisis but the two
commodities that it assuredly
does not lack are a huge purse
and the aristocracy of Euro¬
pean golf and beyond to play
for it.

The tournament — is it the
Deutsche Bank SAP Open or
the TPC of Europe, or both? —
would, if a human being, be
liable to acute schizophrenia.
Be that as it may. the players
are labouring under no misap¬
prehension. They are compet¬
ing for serious amounts of
money and that is quite good
enough for them.

The prize fund to be contest¬
ed over the next four days is. at
El.l million, surpassed' in the
regular European calendar by
only two events. Deutsche
Bank and SAP. who are
putting up the money, would
undoubtedly prefer their
names to hie at the top of die
loumament

There are. equally, those
who would be quick to remind
them that as the event is also
the Tournament Players’
Championship, it carries a
five-year exemption on the
European Tour. The winner
on Monday will not need to
worry about his playing card
until 2003.

The clans have therefore
gathered at Gut Kaden. an
thtriguingly lop-sided lay-out
in which the front half, the
newer nine, is flat and frankly
not very interesting, but the
old. more developed, inward
half is a much better test with
some mature trees and more
clearly defined landing areas.

The field is led. of course, by
Colin Montgomerie. When he
is playing, the rest, no matter
how distinguished, tend to
melt somewhat into the mid¬
dle distance. So. although

Nick Price and Mark
O'Meara are vistiine for ihe
week from the Ignited States
and will compete alongside
Jos6 Maria Oiaz&bal, Lee
Westwood, Thomas Bjorn,
Bernhard Langer. Costanlino
Rocca. Severiano Ballesteros.
Ian Woosnam. Andrew- Colt-
art and Darren Clarke.
Montgomerie remains the
man to beat.

Alsu present litis week is
Jarmo Sandeiin. which is not
significant in itself but be¬
comes so in the light of the
long-distance dispute that
rumbles on between the
Swede and O'Meara.
Sandeiin is still claiming that
O’Meara replaced a previous¬
ly marked ball nearer the 15th
hole in the final round of the
Laneome Trophy last Septem¬
ber. a tournament in w-hich
the American beat Sandeiin
by one stroke.

O’Meara softened his previ¬
ously defiant stance somewhat
yesterday, admitting that on
seeing the video of the incident
he conceded that he possibly
moved the ball forward, but
defended himself stoutly.
"Could 1 have made a mis¬
take?" he said. “Absolutely. I
could have. But try to bend the
rules? Never."

Sandeiin was having none
of iL "The question is. should
we have a player on tape
breaking the rules and still
keeping the trophy.” he said.
“Mark has been playing pro¬
fessional golf for 20 years,
enough for a player to know
right or wrong.”

The affair might be oven
more likely, it is noL O’Meara
feels his honesty has been
inpugned, Sandeiin feels
cheated of justice.

They will not even have the
chance to talk out their prob¬
lems on the course today —
O’Meara starts his first round
at 820am. Sandeiin at 3pm. It
is probably just as well —
pipes of peace are not on offer
from either side.

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Mark O’Meara has forsaken the US PGA Tour to compete at Gut Kaden in Germany for a £1.1 million prize fund

Ratcliffe relishing tough draw

IT WILL be no fluke if Elaine
Ratcliffe, a Curtis Cup player
from Cheshire, manages to
win the OCS English wom¬
en’s amateur championship
for the first time at Walton
Heath tomorrow. The 25-year
old, who led the qualifiers, is
having to progress the hard
way. battling past opponents
of unquestioned calibre.

In the first round yesterday,
she defeated Kate Burton,
runner-up last year, by the
comfortable margin of 5 and 4
and in the second round,
Ratcliffe beat Jill Thornhill,
the honour-festooned veteran
who is a member here, on the
17th. This morning^ in the
quarter-finals. Ratcliffe faces
Kim Rostron. the defending
champion, who beat her Eng¬
land team-mate at the semi¬
final stage a year ago.

Rostron. whose caddie is
her fianed. Robert Andrew,
was eight under par for her

By Patricia Davies

two matches, against Loma
Nelson and Kirsty Taylor, a
robust 19-year old from
Hampshire, who was three
down after ten and could not
reproduce the heroics — five
birdies in six holes from the
IIth — that helped her recover
from a similar plight against
Christine Watson.

Ratcliffe. four under par
against Burton, who sported

leopard-spot fingernails and
green suede shorts, was five
under against the more con¬
ventionally attired Thornhill
— and needed lobe. In a game
of real quality, Thornhill, one
up after 12 holes, was undone
by Ratdiffe’s play at the par
fives that exposed the 30-year
gap in age.

Ratdiffe reached the 13th
and 14th in two — having

SCORES FROM WALTON HEATH

FIRST ROUND: E Racttfe (SanAroy) M K
Buton {St Georpe'a H*l) 5 and 4. J Thomhil
(WaJron Heath] K C Marcfi (Brcrnboreuoh)

Watson (Seaconsfiefcf? 2 and I. KRcsmn
(CMtheroe) M L Ntfccrn (Perns Park) 4 and 3,
K Evans (Moor Park) tX A Murray (Lan¬
ces^ a) lfWv K Shfjptes (Royal Cinque
Ports) bi N Luwanaon 4 and 2. C Court
(Goodwood) bt L Simpson (Gevoss) 2 and
1. N Limb |FKon) bt F Brown (HeswaUl 5
and 4. C Rason (OrmstaA) bt K Harrison

C Upscombe (Orencestert 4 and 3;
S Heath (Tatforrf) bt K Sntth (WdCenocvJej
at 20th. K fisher (Royal Lytham and
St Ames) bt S Sanderson (The Bertstoe)
5 and 3. J Lamb (West WUshre) tt R
Hudson (Wheatley) 1 hole: S Nader
(Woodsame Hall) bt S Coiwriey
(Woodson* Hall) 3 find 2 l Waters
(Charii) bt E OuQgtady (Melton and Norton)
4 and 3. Second round: Ratcffle bi
Thomha 2 and 1. Rostron biTaytor4 8nd3:
Stupptos bt Erans one ho»: Cotxt bt Lumb
at 20ttr. Knowles btFUson 2 hoter Haem bt
Prou 3 and Z. Fisher bt Lamb 0 and 4.
Waters tit Nader 3 and 2

outdriven Thornhill by 100
yards at die latter — for
winning birdies and threw in
an eagle three at the 16th.
where she hit a five-wood out
of die rough to the green that
had Thornhill and the specta¬
tors drooling.

Thornhill raised home
hopes with her tee shot to five
feet at the 150-yard 17th but
missed the putt “1 just didn't
believe the line.” she said

However, not only did
Thornhill have die satisfac¬
tion of forcing Ratcliffe to
play well but she was also
responsible, indirectly, for her
opponent’s fine putting. Over
die winter. Ratcliffe had
worked bard with Harold
Swash, the putting maestro,
who was appointed to help
the Curtis Cup squad on the
advice of the chairman of the
Ladies’ Golf Union training
committee — one JB1
Thornhill

ROWING

Britain in
mood
to take on
world

From Mike Rosewell

IN MUNICH

CREWS from 32 nations are
here this weekend to compete
in the first of the three World
Cup regattas. Germany and
Great Britain, the 1997 cham¬
pions and runners-up. head
the European entries but tiie
high-dass line-up also in¬
cludes entries from the United
States. Brazil. Cuba and
China.

Britain has 16 boats in the
World Cup events and a
further seven in non-World
Cup classes, two of the latter
being a high-class lightweight
eighf and quad, the former
with four 1997 world silver
medal-winners on board and
the quad with the triple world
champion. Peter Haining. in
the line-up.

Britain’s World Cup entries
are spearheaded by three of
the world champion coxless
four. With Tim Foster injured.
Steven Redgrave, Matthew
Pinsent and James CrackneU
are joined by the former
Croatia international, Luka
Grubor, an Oxford Blue in
1997. who recently gained
British citizenship.

With Andre Willms absent
from the sculls. Greg Searie.
Britain’s world bronze medal-
winner last year, will not have
a chance to retest himself
against the German, who took
the 1997 silver and beat him
twice in Duisburg a fortnight
ago.

The women’s sculls, in
which Britain has two entries,
promises to be interesting
both domestically and interna¬
tionally. Guin Batten, the
Olympic and world finalist
has Katherine Grainger to
worry about as well as 14
foreign rivals.

Dot Blackie and Cath Bish¬
op. almost certainly robbed of
a 1997 world medal when they
were struck down by illness at
the last minute, showed their
class when winning two gold
medals in the coxless fairs in
Duisburg. They are in the
pairs again here and are also
included in the women’s eight.

SPORT 53

RUGBY LEAGUE

Morley’s
ban upsets
charge of
Rhinos

By Christopher Irvine

ADRIAN MORLEV. the
Leeds Rhinos and Great Brit¬
ain second row forward, will
miss the leaders' JJB Super
League game away to St
Helens on Sunday. He was
banned for one match and
fined £250 by the Rugby
Football League disciplinary
committee yesterday for a
high tackle in the win against
Sheffield Eagles last week.

There is compensation for
Leeds in the availability of
Marc Glanville in the back
row following his recovery
from concussion. Should
Leeds win against St Helens,
who have controversially fa¬
voured Sean Long ahead of
Bobbie Goulding at scrum
half, they will equal their best
start since winning their first
eight league matches of the
1982-83 season.

Although St Helens offici¬
als have blamed groin and
ankle injuries for Goulding’s
absence, the player has said
that he is fit. increasing specu¬
lation about his future at the
dub. Hull Sharks were linked
with Goulding last week fol¬
lowing a long-term injury to
Glen Tomlinson, their Austra¬
lian scrum half.

Hull eased their player
shortage yesterday when they
took Steve Barrow, a young
prop forward, on loan from
Wigan Warriors and included
him on the bench for Sun¬
day’s home game against
Wigan Warriors. Wigan have
Daryl Curtiss deputising at
scrum half for Tony Smith,
who is out for at least two
weeks with a knee injury.

Bradford Bulls are un¬
changed for their home match
tonight against London Bron¬
cos. Following their demoli¬
tion of Castleford Tigers, in
which the Bulls’ half backs,
Shaun Edwards and Robbie
Paul, shared five tries in their
increasingly-productive part¬
nership. Edwards said: “1
enjoyed playing alongside
Henry Paul at Wigan. Now
the pairing with his brother is
reaping rewards."

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MONACO GRAND PR1X RESULTS

DRIVERS: QuaWifing points (scored by qualifying for the start
of each grand prix within the first 20 positions on the grid): Pole
M Hakkinen 30 points; 2nd D Coulthard 25; 3rd G RsicheHa 24;
4th M Schumacher 23; 5th H+t Frentzen 22; 6th AWurz 21;

7th E Irvine 20; 8th M Salo 19; 9th J Herbert 18; 10th J TruDi 17;

11th J Alesi 16; 12th P Dlniz 15; 13th J Vflleneuve 14; 14th
R Bam'cheJto 13; 15th D HB112; 16th R Schumacher 11; 17th
J Magnussen 10; 18th O Panis 9;19th S Nakano 8; 20th
TTakagi 7. Finishing points {scored for the top 20 classified
positions al the end of every grand prix): 1st M Hakkinen 60
points; 2nd G Ftsichefia 50; 3rd E Irvine 40; 4th M Salo 30; 5th
J VfUeneuve 29; 6th P Diniz 28; 7th J Herbert 27; Bth D HPI26;
9th S Nakano 25; 10th M Schumacher 24; 11th TTakagi 23:

12th J Alesi 22. (Only 12 were classified. J Alesi was classified
although he did not finish the race). Lap points (one point tor
each lap completed): M Hakkinen 78 points; G FtecheHa 78;

E Irvine 78; M Salo 78; J ViUeneuve 77; P Diniz 77; J Herbert 77:
D HHI76; S Nakano 76; M Schumacher 76; TTakagi 76; J Alesi
72; J TruHi 56; O Panis 49; R Schumacher 44; A Wurz 42;

J Magnussen 30: D Coutthaiti 17; R BarricheKo 11:

H+t Frentzen 9; E Tuero 0. Improvement from starting grid
to finishing position (3 points for each Improved place):

S Nakano 30 points; T Takagi 27; J ViUeneuve 24; D Hill 21;

P Dirk 18; E Irvine 12; M Sato 12; J Herbert 6; G Ffefchella 3.
rnitnut lap time of grand prix M HakWnen 10 points,
tv mai f y points Incident resulting In a driver being made to
start from back of grid ex pit tone (10 points deducted): none.
DU not finish ihe race (10 points deducted): J Alesi -10
points; J Trulfi -10; O Panis -10; R Schumacher -10; A Wurz -10;

J Magnussen -10: D Couttfwd -10; R Barricheflo -10;

H+t Frentzen -10; E Tuero -10. Mol starting after qualffyfng
(10 points deducted): none. Speecfing In the pfi lane (5 points
deducted): none. CONSTRUCTORS! Finishing points
(scored for the first car only In the top 20 positions a the end of
every grand prix): McLaren 30 points; Benetton 25; Ferran 24;
Arrows 23; Williams 22; Sauber 20; JordanlQ; Minardi 18:

Tyrrell 16. Penalty points Incident resulting in a car being
made to start from back of grid or pit lane (10 points deducted):
none. EBmfciatian of a car dining the race (10 points

deducted): Stewart-20 points; Prost -20; Williams-10;

Benetton -10; McLaren -10; Jordan -10; Sauber -TO; Minardi -10.
Not starting after qualifying (10 points deducted): none.
Speeding to the p H bne (5 points deducted): none. __

BONUS POINTS apply to six grands prix during the
Formula One championship, the third of which Is the Brtteh GP.
Correctly predicting vrirmtog driver 100 points; second
place: 200 points; third place: 300 points

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CONSTRUCTORS

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r 0 207 . 25 Benetton 15 64 31Stnrart -20 ^4

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TENNIS: FICKLE PARISIAN CROWD LOSE PATIENCE AS No 11 SEED FALLS TO SPANIARD

Pierce departs to French jeers

From Juuan Muscat

TENNIS CORRESPONDENT
(N PARIS

ATTENDANCE records will
surely nor be broken at the
French Open this year. To the
spate of beaten men’s seeds
was yesterday added one of
the biggest crowd-pullers of
all: Mary Pierce, once the belie
of Roland Garros, was dis¬
missed. much to the crowd's
derision, by Magui Serna, of
Spain.

Pierce's large following can
be fickle in the extreme. Pari¬
sians accorded due respect to
Anna Koumikova, the blonde
upstart from Russia, who
stuttered into the third round
by defeating Katarina Studen¬
ikova, of Slovakia. But Pierce
received the full treatment.

When Pierce was ahead,
there were sighs, cheers, whis¬
tles and hoots of derision
whenever the chimes of a
mobile phone disturbed the
atmosphere. But the hoots
were soon aimed at Pierce
herself, who withered away to
nothing by the end. She could
not leave the court fast enough
after Serna triumphed 7-5, 6-Z

Pierce, seeded Noll, can
still command affection. If her
riming of the tail was lacking,
there was a stage-like quality
to the way she stretched her
long neck when poised to serve
in a crisis. The problem was
that Serna, a teenager on the
rise, had cornered the ap¬
plause with some clever pass¬
ing shots. Pierce did not like
that. Back went her head, up
went the gasps, and Pierce
was now ready to resume. She
seemed to abhor the notion
that her supporters were
silent.

They responsed valiantly
but it made no difference.
Prom a 5-i lead. Pierce
dropped six successive games,
squandering two set points, to
concede the opening set. Her
fragile confidence collapsed
and the crowd promptly
rounded on her to exacerbate
what must have been a lonely
plight A loud shrill of jeers
aooompanied her demise.

“If I win 1 am the French
Mary Pierce, if I lose I’m the
French American.” she later
said of die crowd. “I used to
feel spedal pressures playing
in Paris but not any more. It's
not the first time and it
probably won’t be the last, no
matter what I do here. I get
more crowd support every¬
where else in the world than
here.”

A pack of 27 photographers

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Koumikova grits her teeth during her hard-fought victory over Studenikova. Photograph: Jean-Christophe Kahn

were on hand to transfer
images to a public that has
swiftly rejected her. Pierce,
raised in the United States
from a French mother, could
do no wrong on her advance to
the final here four years ago,
when she pledged her alle¬
giance to the Tricolour.

However, her refusal to
make her home in France,

allied to her lack of commit¬
ment to France's Federation
Cup team, has undermined
her popularity. Parisians also
resent the feet that her boy¬
friend, the donor of a giant
diamond ring that she wears
on her engagement finger, is
Roberto Alomar, a leading
light in the Baltimore Orioles
baseball team.

Pierce has made the mistake
of foiling to embrace her
adopted country. So subdued
was she that she never donned
the outfit designed for her
unveiling here. She dressed as
conservatively as she played,
the recent renaissance in her
fortunes suspended until she
can move on to less hostile
territory.

RESULTS FROM ROLAND GARROS

6- 3.8-0; RCwgado (Par) h? P Sa

7- 6, 64. 64; 7 Muslw (Austria)

E 62. 6-1.63: F Mantua (Sfl
63, 64 7-tt C Moyfi (SpJ
6-4, 7-8. 64 M ZAoteta
ga (US) 6-0.64 64 A (fe

Second round: T
dt G Raoux (Fr) fl-4, 4-6.
•(Part htP Sampras (US)
’star IfluBBia) tx N Water
F Mantua (Sp)btB Back
: C Moyfi fSW tot P hnaz
; M Z&abta Mrs) « J
W.SiAfcMhtU

restrain (Swe) 6-7, 6-3. 6-3, 6-4: C van
Garusa (Bel) t*S Draper (Aus) 6-3,3-6, 6-7,
7-6.64 S Sarodsi Man) H A Ceudaml (D
64,64 fr7, S^TCPtainB (ft) bt J Boutte
(Ft) 7-6. 64 34. 64; F Santoro (ft) tit L
Arnold (Atg) 4-6, 4-6. 64. 60, S3: R
KiWIcak (HoB) bt R Gttnrt (ft) 7-5,6-4, 6-1;
T Erqvtat |3we) WY KaMWkov (Ruse) 46.
76. 7-ft 6-1. DouWme Fktt round: J
Bjwfanen (S«w) and P Ratter (Aus) tx J
Gnnatstob (US) end B MaoPNe (US) 3-6,
74,64: J Eagle (Atn) and A Rorert (Aus) bt
R Gtosrt (ft) andS Sfcntai (ft) 44,61, 64;
J Grabb (US) and D MacPh6raon (flus) bt J
Boulter (ft) and J-M Pequory (ft) 6-3,7-6;

W Black (2m) and S Lraeau (Can) tX O
□ataftra 0) srtoSGroejaan (ft) 6-1.6-1:0
Kuerten (Bri and F Moigent JBQ ot N Aorta
(Br) sndASa ®)6464 ,JbSsoJSp) and
M-K GrtOner pa] btD Bowen (US) and D
RodH (Max) 64. 64.6-1; C Barclay (Aua)
and K-A GuaeJAusJ bt N Fetter (Bat) andS
Knwttchew £uQ 64 6-1; J Ntwak (Ca
raid D Rfld (Cz) br M Barnard (SA) andB
Haygarth cSA|t-0. 74.6-2

and K-A Gum (AusJ
Knwrttchew pul) e
aid D RM (Cz) br I
Hogarth (SAJ14,7

WOMEN: SinMn:
rawer (Get) wn&

8] btNFetw (Bat) and S
) 64 6-v. J Ntwak pa
l M Barnard (SA) andB
. 74,6-2

a: Second round: B
SawamatBu (Japan) 64,

64; M Setae (US) tx M Mouska (Austria)
24. 61, 64; B Schwartz (Austria) bt M
Oremara tHcW 64,6-2. ETatjutom (Ufa)
NK HrdSCKOMa (C2) 64,6-1; ASmaatviova
(ter) « E Gagftsd (SwfcO 6-7, B-0.6-1: K
Habsudova (Stouafda) bt N PraS (Aus) 74,
64 MDedy (ft) bt AWundortch (US) 6-1.
6-1: C Rubin (US) bt T Panova (Russ) 6-1,6
1; A KoumUeva (Russ) bt K 5tudafdiOva
(SfavoMa) 64 74; A Cartoon (9*re) bt

S Jeyasseton (Card 64, 64 A Sdnches-
VScano (Sp) bt C Crtetoa (Rom) 62 63;
M SaaM (Japan) bt L AndrattD (Can) 61,
74; H Nagycwa (Slovakia) bt S PKacHru
(Austria) 6-4,6-3. M Same (SpJ btMHeroa
(Ft) 74.62 A Fuad (ft) btT Snyder (US)
64. 63, L Davenport (101 bt L Horn (SA)
64 60: E uanwtopva (rasa) ot C Back
(Zfm) 7-5, 7-6, D von Roost Set) bt
£ Cottons (BeQ 63.64 V RuanoJtescual
(Sp) bt A-G SkJot (Fr) 64,74; R DraQomr
(Rorn) bt F ParfHtt (R) 64 64 CMartfisz
(Sp) bt R Grande TO 61. 64 Doubles;
Rrat mud: B Scfwt (Austria] ana
P Schnyder (Sete) bt S Cade (UB) and M
Ptarco (ft) 67.6-3,64 R Grande (tt) and I
Spiriea (Bom) bt N Wpmua (Japan) and N
Miyagt (Japan) 64.7-6; FLabattArg) and D
van Ftooat (Bat) btS da Beer (Standi Lae
(US) 34,6-3.64 A GocNMbuc (ft) and S
nkowaM (ft) hr K Kadmendl (AustrWJ and
ETatadowa flUkr) 67,6-3,74

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SIEROZEM

(b) A type of soil, usually
calcareous and poor in organic
material that is characterised
by a brownish-grey surface
horizon grading into harder,
orbonaterich lower layers, and
is developed typically under
mixed shrub vegetation in arid
dimales. The Russian for "grey
earth". “On the sleeper, and
consequently drier, slopes
steroans (grey softs) are
developed.”

ST1NKOMALEE

(4 A snobbish and disrespectful

sobriquet of London University
when if was setting up. A
fanciful combinaaion from stink
and Trincomalce. “I saw that
you bad bern made Professor of
English at University College.

London. Do you still all that
institution by the irreverent
name of Trincomalce?"
WEHMUT

(b) Sadness, melancholy,
wis tininess, noslalgiu. The
German word. "A sort of
uuiversal sadness, wmething
remote or impersonal, a
Wefemot or Wettscftmers. or
whatever the Germans all it."

STELK

W A cooked vegetable dish
made with onions, mashed
potatoes, and butter, or other
ingredients. Probably an
adaptation of the Irish stalk
stubborn ess. sulkiness. “I
greatly fear that for dinner now
we shall have to fall back upon

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THE TIMES MDAYM«E 2 !

Series with a foreign angle

Screaming Reds
Channel 4,8Wpm

The angling series returns under the appropriately
named Nick Fisher but it has abandoned hs
magazine format in favour of sending Fisher on his
travels. The idea is to go to a different overseas
location each week and present the fishing as part
of a wider look at local culture. Fisher's first report
is from South Carolina, the cue for some mildly
patronising stuff about rednecks who chew baccy,
but also to look for unusually ugly catfish in die
177,000 square mQes of die Santee lake system.
Fisher takes two trips on the lake with experts to
get the feel of things and then bravely ventures out
on his own, sustained by two indispensable
delicacies, boiled peanuts and pickled pigs* feet
Conservationists will be delighted to note that
having landed his specimens, Fisher sportingly
throws them back.

Nick Fisher (Channel 4,8pm)

The Hunt

BBC2. SjOOpm

The series on the Worcestershire Hunt is on the
brink of losing one of is central characters- Julian
Bam field, huntsman tor the past five seasons, has
been offered another job and is moving back io the
Cotswokls- His resignation is not unconnected
with the strain of fighting Michael Foster's Bill to
ban fox hunting, though if the abolitionists are
claiming a scalp we are not shown this. The Hunt
is still careful not to cake sides. The film follows the
search for Bamfi eld’s successor and it seems the
word has got round, for only two candidates
□resent themselves. Meanwhile, the Worcester
Hunt, organised bv the redoubtable Audrey,
ensures mat it will make itself heard on the
Countryside March and Tony Blair is heckled by
angry farmers during a visit to the Midlands.

service - I’m going to l g™;

line that could haw been.Pure

unwitting running joke with eHharihe

most of foe contestants were a had

was. With the Savage it is often theomcxway

around. But foe hflanous inability

spell simple words has been

Perhaps we are getting better-educated panels.

Bfanfccty Blank

BBC1.830pm

The only way to sustain a game show so
irredeemably awful as Blankety Blank is to
subvert it from within. For some years this task
was performed with singular brilliance by the late,
great Les Dawson. With his lugubrious jokes and

ritual debunking of contestants, guests, scenery
and prizes he turned dross into something

Mr Gay UK

Channel 5, iOJSOpm

Political correctness moves in niysteriousways.
Having long ago swept female be aut y OTitesteOT
terrestrial television for being unaccepiat^ys^M.
ir now gives the nod to a parade of gay mafo QestL
Mr Gay UK has been a national event for Bye
years but this is its television debut. The vemie is
the Town and Country Club in Leeds and the hosts
are Sonia, the singer from Liverpool who provides
a musical interhide, and the comedian Graha m
Norton. His job is to interview the contestants
backstage, discovering, no doubt, foar then’ big
ambition is to work with handicapped children
arid travel the world. A curiosity of the contest is
that despite the tide it is open to non-Bnmns. So
Mr Gay UK could be Vincent from France or even
Carlos, who has come all foe way from Colombia:

Peter Waymarfe

RADIO CHOICE

Koumikova was far more
comfortable, even if the Court
Central accorded her a muted
reception. They tore not easily
wooed at Roland Garros and
the Russian, seeded Noll,
never raised foe temperature
on another day of lengthy
breaks for rain.

The problem for Koum¬
ikova. 16, has been her inabil¬
ity to hold her form
throughout a tournament
Her limited schedule may be
to blame: she remains restrict¬
ed from competing as often as
she would like- On this occa¬
sion she wobbled but
Studenikova. world-ranked
No 93, did not have the talent
to capitalise.

In the men's event foe seeds
continual to perish. Yevgeny
Kafelnikov, the No 6 seed, fell
to Thomas Enqvist of Swe¬
den. in four sets, although the
outcome failed to match foe
surprise of Thomas Muster's
humbling of Nicolas Kiefer,
who is supremely talented but
has an attitude that leaves
plenty to be desired. The
German, taken apart 6-2, 6-1.
6-3, could do with an infusion
of Muster's grit.

Next in line for Muster is
one of the qualifiers who j
continue to make an impres¬
sion. Christophe Van Garsse,
of Belgium, confronts Muster
after his epic defeat of Scott
Draper, from Australia, 6-3.
3-6. 6-7. 7-6. 6-2. Mariano
Zabaleta, foe Argentine quali¬
fier who accounted for Petr
Korda in foe first round,
advanced again yesterday
when he dismantled Jeff
Tarango, of the United States,
for the kiss of four games.

Andrew Hie. obliged to qual¬
ify despite winning on foe
Tour earlier this month, ac¬
counted for Mikael Tillstrom,
of Sweden, to earn a match
against Carlos Moya, seeded
No 12. Bui Rodolph Gilbert, at
No 237. foe lowest-ranked
player left, could not bridge
the gap against Richard
Krajicek, seeded No 10.

VegTalk
Radio 4.3.00pm

Many years ago 1 had foe duty of managing a
junior reporter on a country newspaper who was
m the habit of going out topick his lunch every day:
he would return with half a hedge, which he duty
distilled into enough food to feed a hamster, a meal
subsequently augmented with two pints of
Guinness. That individual and school dinners
have between them given me an absurdly
jaundiced view of most vegetables. So when Gregg
Wallace and Charlie Hides, who co-present tins
new programme, promise to util me “what to do
with curly kale”, only politeness prevents me
telling them whax to do with it. Never mind, what
with chef David Eyre and gardener Lynda Brown,
foe show promises plenty of veggie enthusiasm.

Lipstick Pleasures
Radio 4, llXX)am

I would think that most men are as likely to enjoy
this p rog r a m me as women. The Uttie wax tube has
become the one fashion accessory (surely more
than a mere item of make-up) that is more or less
universal: and than just the men. Which is tally
half a joke, became lisa {’Anson’s programme
demonstrates that lipstick holds a fascination and
an attraction for men that has made it a potent item
in the armoury of weapons available to women.
One of the aspects of lipstick’s story explored here
concerns the feet that until recent years, plum was
the only lipstick colour that beauticians, and the
magazines they worked at, recommended for black
women. Of course, some people hate lipstick and
they are heard here, too. Peter Barnard

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TELEVISION 55

The right moves but wrong mannerisms

I f seems that we have a vora¬
cious appetite for programmes
which tell us how 10 spice up
our lifestyles by buying a car.
redesigning our garden or. in the
case of Changing Rooms, covering
our living rooms in lime-green
imitation fur. So with its magazine
format and wacky presentation
style, last night's new series about
moving house. All The Right
Moves (BBC1). ought to enjoy a
cult following in the manner of
Top Gear or Home Front.

The idea is to avert boredom by
whizzing from topic to topic so
quickly that the audience don't
have time to think. In half an hour
we covered selling your home
without an estate agent, townies
who move to the country, how to
present your house for viewing
and buying houses at auction.

This rich, but insubstantial trifle
was laced with fruity soundbites. 1
wony about the subject marter.
though. We all love nosing round

other people's homes and this in
itself wilt sustain interest, but for
most people moving is a traumatic
but very infrequent event. This will
restrict the number of viewers
seeking guidance. If it works 1
suppose we will be offered a series
called Going In Style about de¬
signer funerals, while Splitting
Image will take a lighthearted look
at chic divorce procedures.

But the programme will stand or
fall on the issue of how many
viewers can stand a whole half-
hour of presenter Quentin Willson
(sorry, '■quentin-wilison" as the
caption has it). As number two to
Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear, he
has had plenty of time to hone his
eccentricities, and his delivery is
now as mannered and predictable
as that or a Japanese Noh actor.

Quentin evidently wasn’t listen¬
ing w hen his mother warned him
about the wind changing, because
that sardonic, twisty smile has
frozen into place. Meanwhile his

eyebrow shoots up and down (ike a
cue-card reading "Laugh Now".
Every sentence finishes with a tiny
little pause, followed by a dip in
intonation, suggesting that the
final word or phrase is... ironic.
The programme ended with a slot
called “Dcs Res" this week a jolly
good gawp around a millionaire's
mansion of stupendously extra¬
vagant vulgarity: reason enough
in itself to watch next week.

B ut if Quentin Willson was
emulating Hello! magazine
on BBCi. Callum MacRae
on last night's Dispatches (Chan¬
nel 4) did a Roger Code number on
World Cup ticket toms. He didn't
quite get physically assaulted, but
the crooks of several nations
slammed doors in his face and
suggested he go forth and
multiply.

Before this programme I sus¬
pected that the fuss about the
French allocation of tickets was

REVIEW

: Paul

•1 ; Hoggart

probably unreasonable. This in¬
vestigation suggests that the situa¬
tion is much, much worse than
anybody has realised.

We followed a trail from a ticket
agency called Great Portland En¬
tertainment. to a network of touts
dealing from Paris, on to a dodgy
agent in Miami and back to Paris.
Touts, ir seems, are operating an
elaborate furores market in ticket
allocations. Tickets which haven't

even been primed yet (for security
reasons) are repeatedly changing
hands at escalating prices. Desper¬
ate fans are paying astronomical
prices for the promise of tickets
which may never actually reach
the tout who is offering them for
sale. Individual touts may deal
with more tickets than the English
FA allocation for all England's
games. A Cameroonian official, it
was claimed, has off-loaded half
his nation's allocation on to the
black market.

Although the French have ar¬
ranged far individual tickets to
bear the purchaser's name, and
identities to be checked at the
tumstyles, when they rehearsed
this cumbersome procedure at a
local match in Lens, it broke down
and spectators went in with their
tickets unchecked.

If Dispatches is only half right,
so many tickets will have been sold
improperly and so many fans will
arrive with tickets not bearing a

valid name, that any anempt at
enforcement will lead to rioting.
For some reason the French organ¬
ising committee did not wish to
talk to the production team or to
view the evidence they have collect¬
ed; perhaps too busy working out
how to cover their backs.

It was a gripping piece of
investigative journalism with lots
of hidden cameras and secret
recordings, but halfway through 1
got the uncomfortable feeling that
1 had no way of knowing if the
whole thing w*as invented. 1 don't
suppose far a moment that it was.
but we have Carlton Television to
thank for the final death of our
documentary innocence.

S o complex was the network
of deceit that it made the
tangled web of Touching
Evil (I7V) last night seem almost
plausible. Contemporary thriller
writers feel obliged to stack up so
much misery and melodrama per

hour that Jacobean revenge trage¬
dies begin to look tame by compar¬
ison. And this series is saturated
with that other new cliche — dark
sets pierced by oblique shafts of
cold white light.

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a deranged stalker which nearly
kills DI Creegan’s estranged wife
and children. We suffer with D1
Taylor haggling for a child in a
dank Albanian orphanage, only to
have to surrender the girl when
they arrive in England. The
paedophile ring are about to spirit
children away to some unspeak¬
able fate, but are thwarted by the
police, whose key witness is shot
by the deranged stalker; and so on.

Yet making up for any amount
of implausibility in the plots are
the power of the situations and the
intensity of the performances.
There is something utterly compel¬
ling about the characters' personal
tragedies; almost unique in a cop
show.

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FRIDAY MAY 29 1998

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From Oliver Holt, football correspondent, in Casablanca

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sense of sadness about the fail
of a showman, if his successes
are exaggerated by his exuber¬
ance. so his failures are exac¬
erbated by the transparency of
his emotions, it felt like that
■with Ian Wright yesterday
when he was sent home from
England's training base in La
Manga and told his chances of
playing in the World Cup
finals were over.

It was a night here that
ended his dream of appearing
on football's grandest stage
and ending his spectacular
career with the international
acclaim that has always elud¬
ed him. He pulled a hamstring
in the 24th minute of En¬
gland’s 1-0 victory over Mo¬
rocco on Wednesday evening
and. when the England medi¬
cal team examined the injury
on their return to Spain, they
confirmed what everybody
had begun to fear and what
Wright had been dreading.

An official statement said
that Wright's injury would
take two weeks to heal and
that there was therefore no

chance of him regaining his
fitness before the opening
game for England against
Tunisia on June 15. There had
been suggestions that Eileen
Drewery, the faith healer so
trusted by Glenn Hoddle. the
England coach, and by Wright
might be flown to Spain to try
to work her magic, but it
seems that not even she could
help this time.

“Ian Wright is out of die
World Cup." the England
statement said. "He was fully
examined today and it became
dear that the injury will need
a two-week recovery period.
He has got a hamstring injury
in the same leg as his long¬
term groin injury and he will
travel home from La Manga
shortly."

The announcement effect¬
ively brings down the curtain
on an international career that
brought Wright 30 caps and
nine goals. His was often a
cameo role in die national side
and, although Hoddle was
keen to include him in the
squad because of the positive
effect on morale wrought by

Hoddle baffles me
says bitter Le Tissier

MATT LE TISSIER yester¬
day accused Glenn Hoddle,
the England coach, of unfair¬
ly exduding him from the
World Cup and said: “I don’t
know what goes on in his
head."

The Southampton player
believes his penalty-taking
record alone would have been
enough to clinch a place in the
squad, apart from his skill at
set pieces, passing ability and
scoring record. He said: “You
would have thought that they
would have wanted someone
who could take penalties.” Le

Tissier, 29, has made only two
starts for England in a career
dating back to die Graham
Taylor regime. He was furi¬
ous that Hoddle picked
Darren Anderton and Jamie
Redknapp, who had both
been injured, ahead of him
for the pre-Worid Cup squad.

“I have been on top form at
the end of the season. You
only have to look at my
record, ten goals in ten games.
I don't dunk I have been
given a fair chance to prove
myself because two starts is
not enough."

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his effervescent irrepressible
nature, the blow is more
personal than collective.

His finest hour for his
country was indicative of his
career at that level, four goals
in a game against San Marino
that meant nothing. More
often, it was dominated by

crushing disappointments
and rejections by Graham
Taylor and Teny Venables for
successive European champ¬
ionship. He was a fine dub
player, but he never quite
made it with England.

The reality is that Wright,
34. had ceased to be a central
figure in Hoddle’s plans and
was no longer even the first
reserve if the partnership be¬
tween Alan Shearer and Ted¬
dy Sheringham was disrupted
by injury or loss of form. That
role has passed to Michael
Owen, who seems to have
everything that Wright once
had — and more. His emer¬
gence made Wright dispen¬
sable.

Hoddle is likely to offer
Wright the chance to travel to
France with the squad as a
reward for his efforts and a
device to boost team spirit, but
the England coach was ruth¬
lessly decisive in his actions
yesterday when the extent of
the damage to the Arsenal
striker became apparent

“I am ray. very disappoint¬
ed." Hoddle said. “Ian has
made a gallant effort to make
the squad for die World Cup.
but he has had the most
wretched bad luck. It just
wasn’t to be."

Wright was dignified in his
disappointment “No manag¬
er has shown greater faith in
me than Glenn Hoddle," he
said. “Above all, I am so
disappointed because I think
England can go a very long
way in the World Cup and 1
wanted so much to be part of
that with the boys. I can tell
them all that they will not have
a bigger supporter either in
France or at home than me.”

Wright had only just fought
his way back into the reckon¬
ing after struggling with a
succession of injuries since
January and missing the ma¬
jority of the reconHrreaking
run of ten successive wins that
took Arsenal to the FA Carling
Premiership title. His absence
cuts the number of players
competing for the final squad
of 22. which will be announced
on Monday, down to 28.
because Jamie Redknapp was
also forced to pull out because
of injury before the squad left
for Spain.

It now seems almost certain
that Hoddle will take either

An injured Wright limps to the dressing-room in Casablanca, knowing that his World Cup place is in jeopardy

Showman
relegated
to role of
bit-part
player

By Matt Dickinson

IAN WRIGHT hopes his next
venture outside football wflj be
in the movies. It will be a
fitting career for a man who
has always appeared to: be
living out an unlikely, and
melodramatic, script — this
season more than ever. ,

It all started so weO for tbe
England forward, who began
with the immediate priority of
overtaking Cliff Bastms
goal scoring record for
Arsenal. He did it six games
into the season, a hat-trick
against Bohan Wanderers at
Highbury taking him past 178
goals.

It should have been the
springboard to a prolific year.
However, there are those, and..
they indude Arsine Wepger,
the Arsenal manager, who
believe that in breaking the :
record. Wright lost hijt
momentum.

Wright went six League
games without scoring, a
drought by his own -nigli-
standards, and although he
produced a brave display as a
lone striker in the draw in
Rome as England, clinched
World Cup qualification, he
appeared to be labouring.

Part of die problem may
have been down to a ligament
injury in his ^ knee that
curtailed his season. As
Arsenal began the: run, that
was to lead to the Double,
Wright was a frustrated ob- :
server, playingjust22 minutes :
of football in February and not
at all in March and April ajs
gro in problems lengthened his
enforced break.

He returned amid much
fanfare as a substitute in the ;t
4-0 victory against Evertan at
Highbury that dinched- the
FA Carling Premiership title,
but he was forced to sit on the
bench for the entire FA Cup
Final at Wembley as.Nkdhs. \
Aneflca demonstrated tint he V
was no longer the apprentice 1
At 34. Wright had been
reduced to a bit-part player.

The news yesterday cflb-
firmed that his body-is'
struggling under the sham .
and Wright whose pripdpal .
asset has always been.-his .,
pace, will start next season as
second choice. No wonder he
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Dion Dublin or Les Ferdinand
in the last of tire striking spots
that had been Wright’S for the
taking. Dublin may be just
ahead, but Ferdinand could be
given a last chance to stake his
daim when England play
Belgium tonight in the King
Hassan II tournament
Even as Wright was board¬
ing the plane home, though, a
fierce debate was raging over
the man who had already
supplanted him. Owen be¬

came the youngest player ever
to score for England when he
struck the winner against
Morocco and. on form alone,
he is the man who the majority
feel should partner Shearer
when the World Cup cam¬
paign opens.

Yet Hoddle has made it
clear that, he sees Owen as the
perfect substitute and that he
will persevere with Teddy
Sheringham. the man who
seems to bring the best out of

Shearer, in the starting XI.
With Owen on a hot streak
and so evidently die symbol of
a bright future, that is bound
to cause a rising tide of
indignation that will quickly
swamp the wave of sympathy
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Chairmen given all-round view

WHILE the more mundane practicalities
of the Annual General Meeting occupied
the FA Carling Premiership dubs yester¬
day. events this afternoon will make the
headlines. Plans to screen top flight
football on pay-per-view- television will
be discussed at the meeting of the elite
dubs, with — apparently — some
intensity.

The Premiership chairmen will hear,
at a Midlands country hotel, a report
from a committee headed by Peter
Leaver, the Premier League chief execu¬
tive. which has considered pay-per-view
for the past two months.

Leaver has been involved in negotia¬
tions with BSkyB over rights to screen
matches in addition to their present
contract, which entitles the satellite
television company to broadcast 60 live
games a season on its subscription
channels. BSkyB has offered several
proposals, based around a plan to screen

By David Mad dock

certain matches at a pay-per-view fee of
about £tO. Sky is keen to emphasise that
it will continue for the next three years —
the length of its contract with the
Premiership — to screen the big games
on its subscription channels. But it has
outlined several proposals that could
eventually extend football coverage to
virtually every match in the Premiership.

In the short term, the company has
suggested an experiment with pay-per-
view to take in some sell-out matches that

would not otherwise be shown on Sky
Sports. BSkyB would like to screen
between one and four pay-per-view
matches a week. It is this issue the
Premiership will consider.

While the bigger dubs such as
Manchester United are keen to pursue
the pay-per-view option, there is likdy to
be some dissent, not least from Leaver

himself, who is keen for the Premiership
to develop its own television channel.
The meeting today will listen to long¬
term plans to allow dubs to share profits
from their own pay-per-view channels.

In theory, that would allow them to
share riches. Manchester United com¬
missioned a feasibility study last year,
which suggested that pay-per-view could
earn the dub up to £750 million, based on
a captive audience paying E10 a match.

The biggest dubs stand to benefit most
but they will face opposition from those
who could well be left behind financially.
While Manchester United. Liverpool and
Arsenal could rely on large pay-per-view
audiences, particularly with admission
prices soaring, the smaller teams would
attract negligible viewing figures.

There is also a traditionalist argument
against pay-per-view, because it appears
inevitable the Premiership would ulti¬
mately move its matches to Sunday.

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Riders back cancellation

AFTER yesterday's tragedy,
ihc riders in the Pruiour.
which finishes in the City of
London on Sunday, will tike
to the road today for the sixth
stage, one of 91 miles from
Bristol to Reading, knowing
that (he future or the even; is
secure for the next three years.

Chris Boar dm an summed
up the competitors* feelings
I about the death yesterday or
| one of the police marshals in
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i devastated and support the

By Peter Brian

decision to cancel the stage
Jlrom Birmingham to Cardiff],
even though it meant disap¬
pointing thousands of people
who had turned out to see it."
he said.

Fatalities among riders or
officials during a race arc rare.
The most recent was in 1995
when Fabio Casunclli, of Ita¬
ly. Ins; conrrol of his machine
while on a mountain descent
in the Tour do France.

The Prutour is Britain's
leading stage race and it
would not be possible to hold it
without close police supervi¬
sion — the cost of which is
likely to be well in excess of
£100,000. Only last week.
Wes; Mercia police refused to
approve a course for the
British road race champion¬
ship on July 5 on a circuit lhai
included several miles of yes¬
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